Everything we design and make is an improvisation, a lash-up, something inept and provisional.

The essential idea is that the quality of the result is continually at risk during the process of making.

Function is a fantasy...the form of designed things is decided by choice or else by chance; but it is never actually entailed by anything whatever.

It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized.

The transfer of power is always a test of the constitutional system, a test of its strength.

We avoid sensuousness, only by resorting to simple negation. We come at last to define spirit by saying that it is not matter.

We are Indians, firstly and lastly.

For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.

To buy an Apple product is to bet on the longevity of the closed system to which we've committed ourselves. And that system is embodied - through marketing as much as talent - by Steve Jobs.

It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.

I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union.

He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.

All last year we tried to teach him (Fernando Valenzuela) English, and the only word he learned was million.