Be yourself, be in the moment, you’re going to be modern.

Designers need to be mavericks, because the best way to design a successful object is to pretend that either it never existed or that people will be able to have a new behavior with it.

While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must be.

Ugly design should be rejected, just like nonfunctional design is rejected, just like nonenvironmentally conscious design should be rejected. It's a value.

I want people to understand that design is so much more than cute chairs - that it is first and foremost everything that is around us in our life.

Elegance in objects is everybody’s right, and it shouldn’t cost more than ugliness.

Small objects, like the Walkman first and then the iPod, create bubbles of space around us that enable us to have a metaphysical space that is much bigger than our physical space.