Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select and fit this material together and make it interesting.

Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

Design is everything. Everything!

Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

Don't try to be original; just try to be good.

The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.

Everything is design. Everything!

You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.

I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism... It's part of that asceticism.

The reason I always insisted on signing my work was not to be subordinate to anyone.

Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.

History rhymes, but geography endures.

You are my light in the darkness.

Any old place I can hang my hat is home sweet home to me.

It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his scruples. Knavery is supple and can bend; but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not.

I think it's really great when you stand up for something that you really believe, even if you get heat for it.

Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice.

All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.

Patience; this is the greatest business asset. Wait for the right time to make your moves.

The research included neutron resonance spectroscopy, the angular distribution of pion elastic and inelastic scattering on nuclei with optical model fitting.

Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.