Technology makes possibilities. Design makes solutions. Art makes questions. Leadership makes actions.

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.

Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.

I'm not ashamed to dress "like a woman" because I don't think it's shameful to be a woman.

The past is a tricky thing. Sometimes it's etched in stone. And other times, it's rendered in soft memories. But if you meddle too long in deep, dark things... Who knows what monsters you'll awaken?

Everything rusts, rots, crumbles, vanishes. The infinite will just take a little bit longer.

I couldn't be more blessed.

I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.

The only people who have quick answers don't have the responsibility of making the decisions.

There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens.

Destiny's Champion, Fate's fool. Eternity's Soldier, Time's Tool.

She says that beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most.