If you are going to have less things, they have to be great things.

Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they expand the horizon of possibilities.

When people say, 'I don't get art' ... that means art is working.

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.

Too little confidence, and you're unable to act; too much confidence, and you're unable to hear.

Creativity's about ownership.

The problem isn't how to make the world more technological. It's about how to make the world more humane again.

Simplicity and complexity need each other.

Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form.

All I want to be is, someone that makes, new things and, thinks about them.

if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.

For this decision, too, he had submitted to the overwhelming force of Sharon’s personality, whose longings and needs seemed inalienable rights, whereas Marcus’s were merely whims.

It’s the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.

If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.

I do think better of womankind than to suppose they care whether Mister John Keats five feet high likes them or not.

Acknowledgment, award, appreciation.

Encountering rhyme out of the blue is like finding a long-lost twin (fraternal), or a suitcase that closes with a particularly satisfying click.

Future is about dematerialisation.

I'm getting better at avoiding this, but when something sets me off, I tend to punch first and then find out who I actually his later.