We realized we don't have an invention, that's why we gave it away.

Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture.'

I am working right at both the levels- with the most wealthy clients in the world, but also the poorest. I spend half my time designing for people that have nothing.

We have carbon in the atmosphere. That is a material in the wrong place problem. It's just like what I said about the lead. Lead in the biosphere is not good. Carbon in the atmosphere (over natural levels) is a problem.

Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.

So when you see a regulation against lead, because lead is a bad in a regulators mind, what does that mean? You are not telling us what is good, you are just tell us what you don't want, not what you do want.

Designers are inherently optimistic people who try to make the world a better place