"The very ability to empathize with a user requires that I have an understanding of that user's value and needs. This is what leads to many product fails. The individuals developing the innovation don't actually use it."

“The current days of the Internet will soon be over.”

Source : " News Corp will charge for newspaper websites, says Rupert Murdoch" by Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2009.

“Music has got a community vibe to it that pulls people together, and those communities are different in different places.”

“Early poems are a thing it takes years to live down.”

“In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery”

“The writing process is very much like being in a dark tunnel, and you don't really know what you will end up with until you have created it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Question: How much do you have to invest in the future before you've spent it and no longer have one?”

“I don't need to control the mind of my viewer. Now this might sound contradictory because I want to make these installations set up an environment that will produce a certain kind of experience in the viewer, but beyond a certain point, I take hands off and leave it up to chance and personal experience. So maybe it's a marriage of control and no control we're talking about where the artist produces the artifact or the environment and then walks away from it, and the second half of the equation is the viewer and their personal history and how they feel about what they're experiencing.”

“One thing that improved my cooking skills was being a poor student in California... If you don't have much money, you have to learn to cook.”