Quotes from Neri Oxman

I don't think I would have made for a good doctor. It was not meant to be, and it took me a long time to realize that.

I am equally fascinated and awed by visiting an Alexander McQueen show as I am looking under a microscope.

I believe in the balance between dreaming and building.

We need to treat the planet as a system, and up until now, we've operated more as if the world were made of separate parts - this part is environment, this part is economy. But everything is connected. You can't fix global warming with a Ph.D. in thermodynamics!

In many ways, I think I'm still forming my ideas about my own identity in this world.

If you believe in Cinderella, and if you can suspend your disbelief at midnight, then you can believe in the interdisciplinary midnight, the 'in-betweens,' and become fortunately entangled, moving from art to science.

I like to think of synthetic biology as liquid alchemy, only instead of transmuting precious metals, you're synthesizing new biological functionality inside very small channels. It's called microfluidics.

When you celebrate a new idea, it immediately comes through the way you hold yourself and the clothes you wear.

I like to mostly wear very simple clothes.

One cannot separate the spider web's form from the way in which it originated.

I approach the world as a whole by taking an integrative approach, not a world of parts, and I like to bring different fields and disciplines together. The same is true with my preoccupation with cultural expression.

I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning.

I appreciate good tailoring as much as good details of construction.

If Enlightenment was the salad, Entanglement is the soup

In the United States alone, 450 billion square feet of glass facade is produced every year. What if we could take this chance to use the glass to harness solar energy and allow the architecture to respond to the light and heat of the sun, to create photosynthesis and generate solar energy?

To wear a beautiful new garment is like wearing a new idea, and I see them as the same thing. Opening my closet is a form of meditation. I pick whatever I feel is right for the day.

The future of design is a future where anything material in the environment - whether it's wearables, cars, buildings - can be designed with this variation of properties and relationship with the environment that can take part in the natural ecology.

How can we reinterpret 3-D printing in a way that suggests a new design language?

If you think about it, the printing press allowed everyone to print books - it democratised the printing of information. For the first time, we could all print.

The world of design has been subjugated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production.

Rarely do we see immediate use of innovative technologies. I believe that the future is built by small pieces that add up.

The 3D-printing technology has been developing at a very rapid pace.

Craft meets the machine in rapid fabrication. We can generate craft with the help of technology.

I don't think of fashion as fashion or biology as biology.