All I want to be is, someone that makes, new things and, thinks about them.

Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they expand the horizon of possibilities.

When people say, 'I don't get art' ... that means art is working.

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.

Too little confidence, and you're unable to act; too much confidence, and you're unable to hear.

Creativity's about ownership.

The problem isn't how to make the world more technological. It's about how to make the world more humane again.

Simplicity and complexity need each other.

If you are going to have less things, they have to be great things.

Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form.

Without books, the world will be void.

Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.

The beauty of the unexpected lies within the surprise of the momentum, not only at its tipping point, but also within all the moments waiting.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Soon or late, every dog's master's memory becomes a graveyard; peopled by wistful little furry ghosts that creep back unbidden, at times, to a semblance of their olden lives.

At least being prosperous set one apart in England; here it guaranteed nothing, not even taste.

On tobacco: A branch of the sin of drunkenness, which is the root of all sins.

If you give me enough time, enough leash, I can become pretty reasonable.

The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.

Examine your own mental attitudes. Become your own therapist.