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.

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

Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.

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.

When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.

We were environmentalists of the Teddy Roosevelt theory. We believed in separation of church and state. We believed in the independence of the Supreme Court not being subject to politicians.

That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.

I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels.

We help other people because we can, or because it makes us feel good, not because we're counting on some future payback. There is a word for this; love.

Peace doesn't mean you won't have problems. It's means problems won't have you.

I am thinking of keeping a diary, not with the intend to publish it, merely to record the facts for the information of God, in case God does not know my version of the facts.

I really never even seriously considered a book but a few years ago someone approached me out of the blue and I said I would think about it.

How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.

The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.