A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you will find.
A challenge to the designers of the world: Make signs unnecessary.
The hardest part of design. . . is keeping features out.
Design is really an act of communication, which means having a deep understanding of the person with whom the designer is communicating.
It is not enough that we build products that function, that are understandable and usable, we also need to build products that bring joy and excitement, pleasure and fun, and, yes, beauty to people's lives.
When a device as simple as a door has to come with an instruction manual—even a one-word manual—then it is a failure, poorly designed.
Technology may change rapidly, but people change slowly. The principals [of design] come from understanding of people. They remain true forever.
Different musical instruments provide for different music.
I was an embarrassment to the department when they did research assessment exercises. A message would go round the department: 'Please give a list of your recent publications. ' And I would send back a statement: 'None. '
I have much confidence that we shall proceed successfully for ages to come. My hope of its duration is built much on the enlargement of the resources of life going hand in hand with the enlargement of territory.
It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.