The idea of being able to build things bottom up, atom by atom, has made [scientists] all into tinkerers. And all of a sudden scientists are seeking designers, just like designers are seeking scientists.

In an ideal world, social responsibility would be a prerequisite for design, and designers would vow to produce beautiful, useful, positive, responsible, functional, and economical things and concepts that are meaningful additions to—or sometimes subtractions from—the world we live in. Indeed, design deserves such thoughtful consideration.

Elegance in objects is everybody’s right, and it shouldn’t cost more than ugliness.

We live today not in the digital, not in the physical, but in the kind of minestrone that our mind makes of the two.

While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must be.

I want people to understand that design is so much more than cute chairs - that it is first and foremost everything that is around us in our life.

Be yourself, be in the moment, you’re going to be modern.

Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.