The fundamental idea of design is to make the world a better place.

When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go where we've already been. If process drives the outcome we may not know where we're going, but we will know we want to be there.

Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future.

The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different question.

When everything is connected to everything else, for better or for worse, everything matters.

The word ‘studio’ is derives from ‘study’. Our object is not to know the answers before we do the work. It’s to know them after we do it.

For most of us, design is invisible. Until it fails

I'm interested in the moment when two objects collide and generate a third. The third object is where the interesting work is.

Massive Change is not about the world of design; it's about the design of the world.

No longer associated simply with objects and appearances, design is increasingly understood in a much wider sense as the human capacity to plan and produce desired outcomes.

Imitate. Don’t be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You'll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable.

Rich will be my life if I can keep my memories full and brimming, and record them on clear-eyed mornings while I set joyously to work setting pen to holy craft.

Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!

It's my job to find the cornel of truth and then exaggerate, exaggerate, exaggerate until it's of an appropriate scale.

You see, that is it with music, you never stop learning.

Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

I don't say anything wacky about women. I have more respect for women than anybody would understand and I'm going to give people jobs and I'm going to protect people.

This is only a small part of the totality. From this island earth we see only a fragment of creation and its knowledge.

This is not the land of my birth, but it is the land for which I hold the greatest affection, and I certainly will come back in the springtime

I have seen so many eruptions in the last 20 years that I don't care if I die tomorrow.

I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.