“I wouldn't say design has become strictly functional. A lot of cars th...” — Scott Westerfeld Quote

I wouldn't say design has become strictly functional. A lot of cars these days look downright comic book to me, and the info-gadgets with which late industrial people spend the most time - phones, music players, etc. - are blobjects.

And a special thanks for not burning up the whole ship. Including yourself, you daft bum-rag.

I moved to New York when I was 21 or 22 as a graduate fellow.

When the term 'machine gun' enters common parlance, the word 'machine' becomes much more sinister.

Ninety percent of the research comes first. I mostly blunder around reading stuff and talking to smart people until an idea batters or oozes its way through to my narrative brain.

I've learned that I've just barely scratched the surface of knowledge of the profession, and I have deep envy of and appreciation for filmmakers who really, truly understand the physics, the design of filmmaking. They can do story and color and composition and geometry and math and science all at once.

I didn't want to be an actor. I wanted to design historical movies like 'Ben-Hur'. I saw this as my life.

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Like many other scientists who hold the Catholic faith, I see the Creator's plan and purpose fulfilled in our universe. I see a planet bursting with evolutionary possibilities, a continuing creation in which the Divine providence is manifest in every living thing. I see a science that tells us there is indeed a design to life.