Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relevance is just as important. I often say, 'If it isn't ethical, it can't be beautiful. But if it isn't beautiful, it probably shouldn't be at all.'
I truly believe that everything Sci-fi taught me as a child about an efficient and wondrous world will be happening in my lifetime.
The idea of designing something that is like something else is incredibly uninteresting and boring.
The Swiss can be very difficult.
I want to work on things that aren't self-evident, to propose things that are radically different and game-changing.
Keyless entry in a car is something that we're used to. Somehow, the home has been very resistant to this. Some of it has to do with security, but today we know that technology, when things are invisible, is actually safer than physical artifacts.