Small objects, like the Walkman first and then the iPod, create bubbles of space around us that enable us to have a metaphysical space that is much bigger than our physical space.

Elegance in objects is everybody’s right, and it shouldn’t cost more than ugliness.

Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.

I want people to understand that design is so much more than cute chairs - that it is first and foremost everything that is around us in our life.

While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must be.

We live today not in the digital, not in the physical, but in the kind of minestrone that our mind makes of the two.

Be yourself, be in the moment, you’re going to be modern.

Good design is a Renaissance attitude that combines tech, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something.

Beauty and elegance are a right, not a surplus... . We must demand, at least, intention.

Life is tough; thank God there's design.

Designers need to be mavericks, because the best way to design a successful object is to pretend that either it never existed or that people will be able to have a new behavior with it.

There’s nothing wrong with accumulating wealth, receiving recognition for your efforts, and having some power and status--what’s wrong is when you think that’s who you are.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

Your impact on the world is significant whether or not you are aware of it, and even whether or not you desire it.

My family's the most important thing in my life.

But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.

I owe the baby my life. I owe this baby everything and I have a responsibility now.

If they can't repeat it, they didn't get it.

The ultimate end of redemption is that we worship God with our whole being and in the whole company of the redeemed.