“In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.”

“Good design should be available to everyone - and I do mean everyone. What I spent on the wheelchair I'm in could buy a small Mercedes. It's not only unfair to me it's unfair to someone who's indigent but has the same needs. My goal is to make all objects affordable. ”

“In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good.”

“When I design a building, I'm making sure you and I can get to the front door, there's enough of a threshold for entry, and that the rooms are in a logical sequence.”

“Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design.”

“The cost is minimal, but one of the things that you want in a universal design is to make the plan as open as you can... and to still have walls around bedrooms and that sort of thing, and to keep the corridors wide enough so the wheelchair can do a 360 in the corridor.”

“When I started my own practice, I was criticized, not because I was doing product design but because, like Le Corbusier, I was insisting on paintings in all of my buildings. I would paint wall murals in the houses that I designed, just as he did in the '20s and '30s.”

“It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design, and I've devoted much of my career to this.”

“I believe well-designed places and objects can actually improve healing, while poor design can inhibit it.”

“If I have a style, I am not aware of it.”

“The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.”