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As we get better at things, we need less people to produce the things we really need, but what do we do with the rest of the people? They have to be doing something, too, to buy from those few which are doing the really basic stuff, and so that's why we need to be continually producing new stuff.

There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working on things that matter.

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

In the industrial world we have the problem of having more productive capacity than we know what to do with. That's at the root of the unemployment crisis: we've got so productive at making things, we don't require people to be involved in making the basics of life any more. Or nearly as many people.

The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.

We're all products of what we want to project to the world. Even people who don't spend any time, or think they don't, on preparing themselves for the world out there - I think that ultimately they have for their whole lives groomed themselves to be a certain way, to present a face to the world.

We can't live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, we're all doomed.

Producing is nothing more than bringing all the elements together, connecting people.

Really, most of us just focus on what's in front of us. We're too busy putting out the fires of everyday life.

What we all like in life, I think, is the challenge of making something... that is not easy to do.