I don't like creating software anymore. It's too exact. It's like karate; there's no room for error.

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.

The day you start trusting the people who think you are right, then the people who are actually right, you are on your way down.

There’s always stuff to work on. You’re never there.

The universe always gives you more of what you are focusing on.

I have been singing as long as I can remember. I used to be in choir; I used to do musical theater. I'd prefer not to sing my own songs, but there you have it.

Religion isn’t about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It’s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.

The mind, if slackened even a little, will cause defeat, the same as fearing the opponent will make you unable to use full strength.

You'll find people who rib you about their age are petrified about getting old. It doesn't bother me.

It's time that we recognized that ours was in truth a noble cause.

Being a victim is almost as easy as being a liberal. It's one of the most gutless choices you could make.

The best thing about making films is the time spent making them. When I see works that I've made, I always think what a great time I had making them. The films remind me of that time.