Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.

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

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.

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.

From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.

You've always had a good grasp on what's right and wrong. You just have a hard time admitting that sometimes you choose the wrong.

Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you.

When life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.

The Art of Being: A state of wholeness in which the mind functions freely and easily, without the sensation of a second mind or ego standing over it with a club.

We still check in with each other. She was a big part of my life, and me hers. I don't see how there cannot be [that]. That's life, man. That's life.

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.

Every healthy person must have a goal in life and that life must have content.

We know what we told him, but we don't know what he heard.