Really great products, like @nest, have #design baked in from the beginning instead of slapped on at the end.

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.

You know what happened to her, right?

Worry about tomorrow steals the joy from today.

As it turns out social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.

A lot of big labels will just sign bands like a write off.

When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man.

Anarchism...stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral.

The central problem of C and C++ is that they require programmers to do their own memory management

I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.

What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else - when you want to be another person.