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.

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

Creatures of a day. What is someone? What is no one? Man is the dream of a shadow.

I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos.

Trust the tale, not the teller.

That [Exodus] occurred, I have no doubt.

I steal things from people, characteristics, and I just stock them in my head like a library to use for characters in the future.

My anekantavada is the result of the twin doctrines of satya and ahimsa.

First it's pretty tires. Next it's pretty guns. Then the next thing you know, you're shaving your beard and wearing capri pants.