Technology should be used to create unforgettable experiences that enhance our natural and built environments, transforming them in newly meaningful ways.

Briefs need limitations and invitations

Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinvent.

Good restaurant design is about achieving equilibrium between the food, service, and design - in effect, telling a complete story.

My work is strongly rooted in place and memory, in personal, formative experiences that took shape within very different environments.

Portable designs have the power to transform unused public spaces into dynamic environments that build and invite communal experiences.

The design of a restaurant should embrace the identity of the chef, the nature of the cuisine, and the context of the restaurant itself.

But what makes my job so great is there's no one answer that's right for every restaurant.

Play and transformation were a bit part of my childhood - using whatever materials were at our disposal, my brothers and I would constantly build and create fantasy worlds.

Sand castles just aren't made to last.

Nothing can be more dreadful than the burden of failure on one's shoulders..

I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me.

In school, my favorite subject was math. That's where I learned to count money.

The great sin of the average Christian is ignorance of the word of God.

But I am more than a name. More than they tell me

I send my kids to school not only to learn how to read and write and do math, but also to develop socially.

Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character.

... I've never found anything whatsoever that is as easy to do the right way as the wrong way, and if there is such a thing I would like to know about it.

Mao Tse Tung lives and his name is Barack Hussein Obama. This country should be ashamed. I wanna throw up.