The fact that dogs are not people means you don't have as much response to the particulars.

The iPhone calendar isn't bad, but it isn't great, either. It only offers a day view and a month view - it doesn't have a week view, which drives me crazy.

The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has existed all along.

I think the responsibility of running a huge business, which happens if you become a successful designer, probably makes you more careful.

I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.

I'm always mystified by the day-to-day workings of entities like Twitter that provide framework but not content, but I suppose it could be compared to the U.S. Postal Service, which manages to keep a lot of people employed doing lots of stuff other than writing letters.

Oversized houses, like oversized cars, seem to be a particularly American fixation.