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.

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.

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.

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

When someone is walking beside us, we have more courage to walk into the unknown and to risk the dark and messy places in our journey.

My biggest fear is forgetting why I fell in love with writing. My biggest dream is never allowing that to happen.

The notion that the maternal wish and the activity of mothering are instinctive or biologically predestined is baloney.

I burn, I freeze; I am never warm. I am rigid; I forgot softness because it did not serve me.

When the heart is still disturbed by the relics of a passion it is proner to take up a new one than when wholly cured.

When you get down to it, unschooling is really just a fancy term for 'life' or 'growing up uninstitutionalized'.

There is a big difference between The Merchant of Venice and a photograph of two males of different races in an erotic pose on a marble table top.

Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.

When I step on the field, it's on. I know it's time to go to work.

My resolve, my anger, even my grief gave me confidence