As a genre, videogames take our minds on journeys, and we can control and experience them much more interactively than passively -- especially when they are well-designed.

Art is a conduit toward human needs and perception.

Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.

Simplicity and complexity need each other.

Although data can make a compelling case for something, data rarely create the emotions needed to spur people into action.

The problem isn't how to make the world more technological. It's about how to make the world more humane again.

When a small, unassuming object exceeds our expectations, we are not only surprised but pleased. Our usual reaction is something like, That little thing did all that? Simplicity is about the unexpected pleasure derived from what is likely to be insignificant and would otherwise go unnoticed. The smaller the object, the more forgiving we can be when it misbehaves.

How do we slow down what matters the most and speed up what benefits change and progress? We don't want to impede progress, but we are seeking reconnection to ourselves, to each other, and with the world.

No place in the US better exemplifies the ethos to engineer new digital technologies than Silicon Valley.

Things that I can do myself, I either do by myself, or teach a willing undergraduate who doesn't know how to do those things by doing it for me. Things that I can't do myself, my graduate students should be doing.

I have a confession: I'm not a man of simplicity. I spent my entire early career making complex stuff. Lots of complex stuff.

Apple products aren't simple technologies by any stretch, but there is a beautiful simplicity to them.

I don't like creating software anymore. It's too exact. It's like karate; there's no room for error.

Growing up, I found I was good at two things: Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was only, 'John is good at Math.'

Art shows us that human beings still matter in a world where money talks the loudest, where computers know everything about us, and where robots fabricate our next meal and also our ride there.

I like stuff designed by dead people. The old designers. They always got it right because they didn't have to grow up with computers. All of the people that made the spoon and the dishes and the vacuum cleaner didn't have microprocessors and stuff. You could do a good design back then.

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.

My role is to find strategic insights as to where design can have the most business impact. A designer can bring a viewpoint of not just aesthetics, but economics and usage.

Research universities need excellent means to communicate and express their results to regular people.

If you have no fear, no one has power over you.