'Because of all this, design for me has always been about making hope visible. I was lucky to grow up in a bedroom community for MIT, Brandeis and Harvard. Neighbors who were professors, scientists and writers surrounded us. One was the linguist Noam Chomsky. I remember he once said, “Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.”' - Brian for Forbes Magazine, 2020