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If you don't have an end game of something delightful, you're just moving chess pieces around.

We realized we don't have an invention, that's why we gave it away.

Not everything needs to be recycled.

Sustainability takes forever. And that's the point.

If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage.

We are all born artists ... Almost everything kids do is art.

Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture,'

Designing renders visible our hopes and dreams. It is the first signal of human intentions.

Imagine walking into a grocery there is a jar sitting there with a lid on it saying it's not carbon. That is ridiculous. It's an empty jar.

I think the job of an original designer is to inspire.

You need that same creative force that exists in a building like Disney [Walt Disney Concert Hall] to actually tackle that most prosaic of problems.

Art is about going a little nuts ... Kids do art for fun. It's playing.

The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.

It's going to sound strange probably. But I really like Frank Gehry's works.

Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.

In planetary terms, we're all downstream.

If you continue to act like an artist as you get older, you'll increasingly feel pressure. People will question your actions.

In the end, the question is not, how do we use nature to serve our interests? It's how can we use humans to serve nature's interest?'

The surest way to heal an eco-system is to connect it to more of itself.

The problem I have with carbon as a bad thing issue, is that people go out and say they want to be zero carbon. You see it everywhere.

Designers are inherently optimistic people who try to make the world a better place

If you don't like carbon, if you want to be zero carbon, then you might as well shoot yourself, dry up and blow away because you are carbon.

You don't filter smokestacks or water. Instead, you put the filter in your head and design the problem out of existence.

Design is inherently optimistic. That is its power.

We prefer to talk about 100% renewable instead of zero carbon. When you say zero carbon, you are not positively defined.

We get jealous not because we're evil, but because we have little artists pent up inside us.

Honor commerce as the engine of change.

The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.

How do we love all the children of all species for all time?

Design is the first signal of human intention.