Some people are in stultifying environments where there are rigid rules and rituals and they need that to thrive, where other people are just asphyxiated by stuff like that.

I know that in my own work I'm able to do all kinds of things I never thought I'd be able to do.

You can build an ordinary hot dog stand or you can build a spectacular one, and you can do it sometimes without that much difference in money - if somebody thinks about it.

The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be

Planning involves considering how other people may use something.

The idea of retirement seems to imply that you stop doing what you always did. Why would you do that? I don't get that.

Creativity isn't about the advantage or disadvantage of a specific time or culture. Creativity is something that comes internally from a human being having a genuine mistrust of rules. And that may be the constant. It's almost like there's some rebellion in it.