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

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.

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 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.

There is a girl.I named her love.She has a father. His name is desire.Her mother has a name, but not always the same. We call her destiny.Love calls her mommy.

I am no longer surprise by situation.

When the time comes for you to leave this earth, if it doesn’t become a lesser place with your absence, then you have wasted your life.

Authors don't have wings. We must climb the mountain, not try to fly to its top.

If you treat your children at home in the same way you treat your animals in the lab, your wife will scratch your eyes out. My wife ferociously warned me against experimenting on her babies.

The thing about religion is that it's the first and the worst. The worst because it's the first.

Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.

I accept the fact that I'm going to miss it sometimes. I just hope I miss it where I can find it.

My nearest and dearest have always been very careful. I've never had to send Christmas present back yet.

Books and movies inspire me, but I do my best to keep my stories as original as possible.