If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage.

Designing renders visible our hopes and dreams. It is the first signal of human intentions.

Sustainability takes forever. And that's the point.

You don't filter smokestacks or water. Instead, you put the filter in your head and design the problem out of existence.

In planetary terms, we're all downstream.

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.

This idea that things are designed to go back to nature or industry for ever which is our articulation of these two metabolisms are actually a discovery not an invention.