The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma.

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.

Step and land, step and land. That's all travel was. Throw in some running and a change of scenery. No big deal, right? And so, off he went. Off they went together.

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.

The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.

To get the adrenaline pumping between events - or to help me switch off, Jay Z, the Roots and Drake are on my playlist.

I've got the drinkers and the smokers and the eaters on my side.

If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.

There is always some regret when we accept that love has moved away from us

Size alone is not a key to success, as we have seen recently.

To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness.

Scrape the surface of language, and you will behold interstellar space and the skin that encloses it.