The way I look at my job, I spend a lot of time trying to create the conditions for good design to happen and I don't get an opportunity to do a lot of hands on work.

I really try to keep my personal workspace as tidy as possible. I really believe there's a place for everything and everything in its place, as the cliché goes.

Even though the means of production are more available than ever, I think the true expertise is as rare as ever.

I think design does evolve in a meaningful sense. I think if you look at design as a part of the continuum of communication, since even before Guttenberg.

You have to have a balance and understand that as much as you would like to have absolute control over everything, it's just not realistic.

I think now we're seeing the pendulum switch back to this idea where conversations are more important, if not more important than documents.

Designers from start to finish now in digital media have to think in a much more sort of thoughtful serious and humble way about how design audiences will receive their products.

I think the key difference between the web and print medium is, on the web or any digital medium, you're dealing with this added element of behavior.

I think there's always something about design that is going to be very difficult for more than a small fraction of people to really get.

I have a few memories of being young here in the United States, but almost no recollections of being young in Vietnam.

I think I sort of have a love/hate relationship with a reputation I have for being the designer who works with grids.

To be wounded by the suffering of others is a gift of the Holy Spirit.

There is an enduring freshness in what remains strange and obscure which the cliches of greatness can only evoke nostalgia for.

I think with my right hand.

Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.

I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.

When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity.

You don't train a dog in a training hall, jerking his neck or even giving him food treats. You train him using life rewards.

The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system.

To sustain our leaders is a privilege.

If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.