Most of the time, we live our lives within these invisible systems, blissfully unaware of the artificial life, the intensely designed infrastructures that support them.

When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go where we've already been. If process drives the outcome we may not know where we're going, but we will know we want to be there.

Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future.

The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different question.

The fundamental idea of design is to make the world a better place.

When everything is connected to everything else, for better or for worse, everything matters.

The word ‘studio’ is derives from ‘study’. Our object is not to know the answers before we do the work. It’s to know them after we do it.

For most of us, design is invisible. Until it fails

I'm interested in the moment when two objects collide and generate a third. The third object is where the interesting work is.

Massive Change is not about the world of design; it's about the design of the world.

No longer associated simply with objects and appearances, design is increasingly understood in a much wider sense as the human capacity to plan and produce desired outcomes.

Believe in everything, just in case.

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

War should never be thought of as something autonomous, but always as an instrument of policy.

Average talent, plus hard work and dedication, will always beat talent by itself.

I dont think I talk to anybody the same way I talk to Moby.

I'll just be sitting down having dinner with girlfriends or something and people come up and ruin the dinner.

To become a champion, fight one more round.

I try to go out and do the same thing every night. I've been taught since I was a kid that the only thing that matters is winning.

What I write, if you have to label it, is crossover, and I think that much of the stuff that is called children's or YA is in fact crossover and is equally valid for anyone who likes to read fantasy.

Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism.