Over the next ten years, everything that has a cord is going to have data in it.

The truth is, homes change over time — and technology has to adapt, not try to do everything at once.

Every person I talk to has a story about how their smoke alarm went off or woke them up with a battery beeping. So you take it off the wall and you take the battery out and say screw this. They hate the products.

I've been working with contractors designing and building a house on a nonstop basis since I learned about all these systems of audio, construction, electricity, energy, water systems.

Even if you have constrained resources, don't cut corners. People will feel it.

I started designing the greenest the most connected home before the iPhone and the iPad.

It's easy to solve a problem that everyone sees, but it's hard to solve a problem that almost no one sees.