Much of my inspiration for making/writing/designing books was the late William J. Mitchell. He was an absolutely amazing man who could publish a book a year somehow. Bill Mitchell, Muriel Cooper, and Red Burns were phenomenal people who all made computational design into what it is today back when they were alive. I refer to them all in the books that I wrote ... and I guess I stopped writing books because I was running out of people to memorialize. Because after a while, I began to think that getting older meant that there were fewer people out there to look up to. But now by living in Silicon Valley, I’ve found a whole new group of people to look up to: the next generation of computational designers! —@johnmaeda