Ugly design should be rejected, just like nonfunctional design is rejected, just like nonenvironmentally conscious design should be rejected. It's a value.

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.

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.

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.

Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on.

My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible.

When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me.

Nobody can hide their birthdays anymore, so there's no point in lying.

Influencers influence people and the people who they influence.

Often, people take herbal medicines for a physical response, but what they find is that the body also responds in an emotional way to the plant medicine that they're taking.

My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.

In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.

Hit songs did not come out of musicals. Pop-rock was creating the hits. There were very few songs that made the charts out of any Broadway musical.

To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.