Tom Sachs

"That's why I really believe that you don't need a huge studio with assistance. All you need is a piece of paper and the just the right pencil. Pentel P209"

"This semester we're teaching you how to tie knots and take photographs and how to use a furoshiki, which is a Japanese traditional cloth that's used to wrap a gift or to carry something."

"my favorite is Uncle Bumble which is AvE Analog Versus Arduino. He's my favorite podcaster. He does breakdowns of machines and he's the smartest idiot on the internet"

"including Photoshop and Procreate and any digital medium or maybe words depending on what the idea is"

"the thing that's maybe most valuable to come away from this podcast or reading Finding Ultra"

"That movie American Gigolo had just come out and there was this fashion designer, this relatively unknown fashion designer named Giorgio Armani made these clothes for that Richard Gere wore"

"this relatively unknown fashion designer named Giorgio Armani made these clothes for that Richard Gere wore. And there were these elaborate shots of his closet in Beverly Hills"

"the values of like the Dead Kennedys perhaps were the most impactful about issuing consumerism and issuing the idea of finding our identity through our consumer products"

"One of the great things about getting to work with Nike is that it's an amplifier for the values of the studio, but on a larger scale."

"I got to go to Home Depot and rent one of those giant hammers that are really expensive and it was going to take two hours."

"ISRU is In-Situ Resource Utilization and it's a protocol that NASA's been working on since the late 1950s during the invention of the Cold War."

"I went to the Museum of Modern Art for the first time when I was in college, and it's not where I come from."

"including Photoshop and Procreate and any digital medium or maybe words depending on what the idea is"

"It's something that happens in every PowerPoint presentation everywhere throughout the world. It's the most moronic thing ever."

"It's an app and you can get it on the app store under Tom Sachs or Google Play or under ISRU and it's a game and we do rituals... help you get in touch with your creativity in a positive way"

"So I stole that from Tomaso Rivellini's desk at JPL... it's available on my web store. I think it's like 10 bucks or something. But my point is you have the power through that paper to fulfill your dreams"

"That is the best laptop bag ever because... It's the lightest laptop bag ever. And someone might say, 'But there's no padding.' And my answer is, 'Of course there's no padding. It's a $6,000 supercomputer.'"

"Buy this book because it's the story of how I did it, but use it to find how you did it."