All too much of the man-made is ugly, inefficient, depressing chaos.

You cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people.

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

My heart belongs to the details. I actually always found them to be more important than the big picture. Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality.

One of the most significant design principles is to omit the unimportant in order to emphasize the important.

Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour.

Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role.

Good design is long-lasting! It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated.

Things which are different in order simply to be different are seldom better, but that which is made to be better is almost always different.

Good design means as little design as possible.

Good design is thorough, down to the last detail.

Creativity is nothing but an intelligent imitation.

Life is never against you because you are the one who is creating it.

I love writing. I've always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone.

I told the umpires to walk back at least thirty-five feet from home plate. That reduced the arguements.

The flying? I'm not worried about it. I'm safe up there. I feel very comfortable with my abilities flying an airplane.

Change happens when you understand what you want to change so deeply that there is no reason to do anything but act in your own best interest.

I wouldn't keep him around long if I didn't feed him well.

I feel like the modeling industry is a little bit more accepting of women who make mistakes. They appreciate the idea of icons.

I wanted this to be a movie on TV so I could press the off button and make it all go away.

And I like pygmy goats, because they're just lovely, and ducks.