Knowledge makes everything simpler.

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.

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

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

I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public, of peace and war.

A good vocabulary is not acquired by reading books written according to some notion of the vocabulary of one's age group. It comes from reading books above one.

If you sell the film rights to your book, it doesn't mean there will be a film. I have sold the rights to five books and had zero films made. Take the money and be thankful.

You only have control over the storms you are able to have peace in.

My message is "Getting older is inevitable. Aging and deterioration are optional."

As a philosopher, I'm not obliged to explore every unknown wilderness.

Have confidence in who you are and don’t be afraid to go for what you really want in life.

I wanted to be a songwriter.I didn't so much want to be a performer.I more grew into that just from being a songwriter.

I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.

Often in life, the most important question we can ask ourselves is: do we really have the problem we think we have?