The best scientists that I've met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time.

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.

Since chess was such a painful test of intellect, it affected his emotions too much to be sport.

This was something I always dreamed and wanted to be part of, when women's wrestling was freakin' cool, and now it is.

When all is lost, ask the I.R.S. - they'll find something.

Retirement is a waste of time. The economy needs you!

Most liberals I know were for invading Afghanistan right after 9/11.

I have a healthy view of what one can do with art.

... it has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room

I meet so many people that just sort of say, "I want to thank you for your music. It really helped me" or "It changed my life."

A Movie That Costs Only $1.6 Million Doesn't Have to Be a Cultural Event to Turn a Profit.

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.