My role is to find strategic insights as to where design can have the most business impact. A designer can bring a viewpoint of not just aesthetics, but economics and usage.

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.

If there is no meaning in it, " said the King, "that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. And yet I don't know.

In wartime, she thought to herself, you don’t call a death murder.

When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. That's what I think. It's just a form of sincerity.

Just imagine yourself in a wheelchair. Go through the building. If there's a place you can't go in, it's not accessible.

Concepts become forces when they resist one another

The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.

I felt I'd earned the Good Housekeeping Seal when I designed an oval-shaped spaghetti pot, because spaghetti is long.

The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.

The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.

I still look to music to heal and bind; I still think the musician can be a trusted object offering his fellow-man solace but also a reminder of human excellence.