In most people's vocabularies design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me nothing could be further from the meaning of design.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course if you dig deeper it's really how it works.

A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience the better design we will have.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Design is people.

What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together.

So to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy that's a great reward.

When I design buildings I think of the overall composition much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space.

I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.

Good buildings come from good people ad all problems are solved by good design.

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

You can design and create and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

Here's a thing about the death of your mother or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you a few may be close to right none exactly right.

You realize that however much you don't think about death - or think that's for other people - you're just an organism living from day to day. I'm just grateful I'm here.

The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.

Lots of people there seemed to be in denial in absolute denial of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A. if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day you might not die.

There are some people who walk into a room and they oxygenate it by their very being there's fresh air. Then there are those who come in with the smell of death and they suck the life out.

Cause at the end of the day honestly at the end of the day when you're in your death bed and that's it I think it's the relationships you've had and the people that you've touched and the people that have touched you that matter.

People need jobs people need happy and successful lives there should be marriage between one man and one woman there should the value of person from conception until natural death.

When the courts decide that murderers rapists and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford they are condemning good people to death.

But for me it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people to see a bright future snuffed out is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths.

The American people are not just being taxed to death they're being taxed after death. But no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.

After my mother's death I had such difficulty relating to people.

There are people who never experience that who remain closed until death from fear of change.