I think the obstacles are the same as the opportunities, is the way we like to look at them.

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 wealth of unexpressed love in the world.

At my age, I realize that my most precious possession is time, and I've got too much unfinished work to do to spend even a minute talking about myself.

Treat each person as you would an old friend.

A life worth living is a life worth recording.

I love the idea of a beautiful neighborhood that represents the very best of American values, but also as a fun backdrop to some darker, deliciously sneaky things going on in people's lives.

I was ever the realist, sometimes to my sorrow. But seldom to my regret.

'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.' I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it would still sing to me.

My nostalgia is for the impossible.

One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so.

I set myself high standards on the pitch and know I have not always lived up to them this season.