Origami fed my need to understand things, to solve problems, and to be creative all at the same time.

Knowing what the problem is doesn't mean that you know how to solve the problem.

Design is the structured management of creative or intuitive thinking.

The biggest success in Silicon Valley is the culture that allows creativity to thrive.

Personal meaning lies at the confluence of your passions and your heartbreak.

When thinking about the future, it's not about the actual artifacts, but the relationships between them.

Fuck you, pay me.

You need a clear vision, loose structure. Leave enough that people can be creative, but don't give them a blank sheet of paper.

The most fundamental thing you can do in advertising is tell the truth.

We need to stop selling and start telling.

We as creators have a decision to make. Do we want to be 90% of noise, or do we want to be the 10% of signal?

For me, happiness is really just about giving up and submitting to something larger.

Building a community is not expensive, you just have to be creative.

It doesn't matter how much money you have, it matters how much creativity you have.

As designers, as developers, as creatives, we are problem solvers.

Design is not about design.

My work was so much better when I was interested in the same thing that the client was interested in.

If you love your own product, there's a good chance others will too.

We obsess about our coffee, but we don't obsess about the things that are really important—our food.

There's pretty much nothing I've done right before doing it wrong first.

How does the computer change the way we conceive of architecture?

Just because something was designed for a certain purpose, doesn't mean you have to use it that way.

I don't think you have you have to have a diagnosis to have a realization.

I think that drive from being somewhat satisfied to being more satisfied is driven by doing more of what makes you happy.

Be makers of things, not just consumers of things, because our future depends on it.