The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story actors music and camera design. When it works it can entertain move people and teach us all.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works but each one launches another. Every constraint even dullness frees up a new design.

The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters the decision is made by committee and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.

I think a lot of times people design restaurants with flash in mind. I think you should design restaurants with function in mind. Make sure it's functional and works with what you're trying to accomplish. Design can come later.

Now I design what I want to wear and it works that way.

Obviously I come from one background and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years and they know what works and doesn't work.

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

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.

Design works if it's authentic inspired and has a clear point of view. It can't be a collection of input.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

I've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

As a comic you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.

Work ethic has always been stressed in my family. My dad is going to be 80 years old and he still works part time. My mom just retired a couple years ago and she's in her mid- to late 70s.

If you had told me at 45 years old that I would have to go on tour to get rest I would've said 'That's not how it works.' But nothing can be more gratifying. I'm a very hands-on dad.

My mom's a social worker and my dad works in non-profit organisations.