"Focus means something very different than zeroing in on a specific discipline."

"I wanted to create something that would embody this intimacy with my family, with my homeland that I’d left."

"I like to think of the voice and all the sound from our bodies as some kind of rhythm of life and music of life."

"We’re kind of a kitchen, which is great because that’s the stuff that I love."

"I was always very philosophical as a kid, wondering about the meaning of life and what should we do."

It’s along the way that you find all these weird moments when something else gets born.

"It kind of forces me to think outside of what I’m working on."

"We are creating the future; we are designing it; we are building the future."

"At the Media Lab, there really was this ‘aha’ moment."

"There is so much creativity in the atmosphere—you just want to be there. The space is uplifting."

"They support crazy ideas, which is nice because this encourages innovation."

"These are really deep philosophical questions that one might pose. We are the ones making the models for science."

"The thing that gets me most excited over and over is when I don't know what's going to happen."

"Think—what are people not expecting to happen yet and how can I make that happen?"

"There's this focus on engaging with the world around us, not just trying to push technology for technology's sake."

"I heard about MIT Media Lab and that they sort of liked misfits, and I was a misfit at that point. "

"Making media and putting it out in the world is a really powerful way of engaging with social change."

"I feel like I go to the real-life museum of science, where the machines and the projects all come to life."

" I wanted to become an inventor or scientist. I wanted to do a job in which I could be creative."