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The principal and only way to make an heirloom product is to design something that people will need not just this year, but for the next 50 or 100 years.

Products have to be designed in a way that they are comprehensible.

It takes great salesmanship to convince a customer to buy something from you that isn't built or isn't finished.

If you look at, you know, the limitations of creating new products, you're only limited by the technology that you have to work with.

Most brands want to see their products used in creative ways.

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future.

It's easy to design expensive products. But there's that product democracy that I believe very strongly in to make something affordable for almost anybody that would want to use it.

Any system that sees aesthetics as irrelevant, that separates the artist from his product, that fragments the work of the individual, or creates by committee, or makes mincemeat of the creative process will, in the long run, diminish not only the product but the maker as well.

Each time I invent something and have it manufactured, it's so incredibly exciting that I can't imagine ever wanting to stop. Envisioning new products is easy for me. I just don't have enough time in the day to design them all.