Quotes
Life
I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.
Life needs to be more than just solving problems every day. You need to wake up and be excited about the future.
If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.
My philosophy is curiosity & adventure.
There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What's the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.
Work
Design is not just what it looks and feels like. Design is how it works.
Reasoning from first principles is a superpower.