Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.
The problem isn’t how to make the world more technological. It’s about how to make the world more humane again.
All I want to be is, someone that makes, new things and, thinks about them.
Too little confidence, and you’re unable to act; too much confidence, and you’re unable to hear.
Simplicity and complexity need each other.
Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form.
The best designers in the world all squint when they look at something. They squint to see the forest from the trees – to find the right balance. Squint at the world. You will see more, by seeing less.
A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.
If you are going to have less things, they have to be great things.
Anyone with a computer and a design program can create a page layout. But unless you’re trained in design, it won’t look very good and it won’t communicate very well.
Apple products aren’t simple technologies by any stretch, but there is a beautiful simplicity to them.
In the ’70s and ’80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science.
Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they expand the horizon of possibilities.
Think of the computer as a spiritual space for thinking.
We seem to forget that innovation doesn’t just come from equations or new kinds of chemicals, it comes from a human place. Innovation in the sciences is always linked in some way, either directly or indirectly, to a human experience.
No place in the US better exemplifies the ethos to engineer new digital technologies than Silicon Valley.
If there were a prerequisite for the future successful digital creative, it would be the passion for discovery.
The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.
Research universities need excellent means to communicate and express their results to regular people.
I don’t like creating software anymore. It’s too exact. It’s like karate; there’s no room for error.