Designers from start to finish now in digital media have to think in a much more sort of thoughtful serious and humble way about how design audiences will receive their products.

I really try to keep my personal workspace as tidy as possible. I really believe there's a place for everything and everything in its place, as the cliché goes.

Even though the means of production are more available than ever, I think the true expertise is as rare as ever.

I think design does evolve in a meaningful sense. I think if you look at design as a part of the continuum of communication, since even before Guttenberg.

You have to have a balance and understand that as much as you would like to have absolute control over everything, it's just not realistic.

I think now we're seeing the pendulum switch back to this idea where conversations are more important, if not more important than documents.

I think the key difference between the web and print medium is, on the web or any digital medium, you're dealing with this added element of behavior.

The way I look at my job, I spend a lot of time trying to create the conditions for good design to happen and I don't get an opportunity to do a lot of hands on work.

I think there's always something about design that is going to be very difficult for more than a small fraction of people to really get.

I have a few memories of being young here in the United States, but almost no recollections of being young in Vietnam.

I think I sort of have a love/hate relationship with a reputation I have for being the designer who works with grids.

There is nothing higher-class than real craftsmanship, diversity, originality and the service of skilled human hands.

I know already that I can survive it. That's the sorrow of it all. That whatever comes I'll survive it. I mean, even if the worst were to be true, would it really be the worst?

There are many worlds in the 'Realm of Worlds' where the ascendant beings are not male or female.

We listen too much to the telephone and too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. A lonely sound, perhaps, but soothing.

God involves us in his mission not because he needs us but because he loves us.

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

I've moved away from that sort of deep-ecological extremism. I started to think: what can we do for wild birds right now? I don't want these particular species to disappear.

I have this whole thing that when God gives you more that you have imagined, you should give it back.

Freedom isn't the ability to do whatever you want. It's the willingness to do whatever you want.

Come, Let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's mock the midnight bell.