The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.

When you say 'design,' everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it's an emotive word. Everybody thinks it's how something looks, whereas for me, design is pretty much everything.

Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.

It is an extreme perversion of capitalism if you can trade in something before you have even paid for it.

What I often do is just think of a completely obtuse thing to do, almost the wrong thing to do. That often works because you start a different approach, something no one has tried.

I did a really messy pencil sketch and then went to my computer and tried it out, to see if the planes all fit together.