I would say there is no Prada woman. I'm interested in women in general. I don't have any kind of preference.

For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive.

When I was younger, shopping helped me discover many new places and many new things.

I want to make clothes that are beautiful of course, but also clothes that are interesting and considered and intelligent and not out of place.

I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always wanted to be a pilot. And if you're going to fly airplanes, the best place to be is the Air Force.

Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.

Whether or not evolution is compatible with faith, science and religion represent two extremely different worldviews, which, if they coexist at all, do so most uncomfortably.

I'm a technological optimist in that I do believe that technology will provide solutions that will allow the world in 2050 to support 9 billion people at an acceptable standard of living. But I'm a political pessimist in that I am concerned about whether the science will be appropriately applied.