With the Solaris, however, I wanted to design a very simple, elegant dress watch

Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out.

If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.

I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come.

I'm always working. Like a lot of creative people I can't switch off. I can't disassociate work from pleasure. My job is my hobby.

My job as a designer is to look into the future. Not to use any frame of reference that exists

I don't have any furniture of mine in my room.

I'm fascinated with materials, with processes, with technologies.

To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.

If I can feel freedom then I can create.

I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.

A plan concerns your life and your calling

I dream of a house full of books.

Fulfill me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world cannot give you those things, and when you no longer have such expectations, all self created suffering comes to an end.

The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.

I often think about the class differences involved in "jobs" vs. "careers."

One can never go back. One always has to move forward.

Abercrombie is only interested in people with washboard stomachs who look like they're about to jump on a surfboard.

The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery argues that criticism should try to speed justice.

'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so.

There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.