Usually, the biggest companies are not the most dynamic.

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

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

There are a lot of designers who think they understand technology and a lot of technology guys who think they understand design. But to put them together and make it robust and repeatable for the mass market? It's an art.

I'm always doubtful. Everything I do is always doubtful. When you're trying to differentiate, there's going to be this gut sense, is this right? If you're not having doubt, then you're not pushing it hard enough, or you're not looking at the details close enough. You need to be feeling that doubt every single day.

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

Learn by doing. Learn through experiences. And this goes back to Steve Jobs' thing - which is the way you open up your knowledge of the world is by discovering it and learning about it, not through books, but by being there.