When you brush your teeth, I'll squeeze the toothpaste.
Designers need to be mavericks, because the best way to design a successful object is to pretend that either it never existed or that people will be able to have a new behavior with it.
Elegance in objects is everybody’s right, and it shouldn’t cost more than ugliness.
Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.
Designers stand between revolutions and everyday life. They’re able to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and society and convert those changes into objects and ideas that people can understand.
People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something that the world didn't know it was missing.
I want people to understand that design is so much more than cute chairs - that it is first and foremost everything that is around us in our life.
The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.
You ever say a phrase you say all the time at the wrong time, feel like a complete idiot? Something like, 'You, too. You, too. ' I was getting out of the cab at the airport, and the driver goes, 'Hey, have a nice flight. ' 'You, too. You, too. You have a nice flight, too - in case you ever fly some day.
A man unattached and without wife, if he have any genius at all, may raise himself above his original position, may mingle with the world of fashion, and hold himself on a level with the highest; this is less easy for him who is engaged; it seems as if marriage put the whole world in their proper rank.
Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive -- is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a slow pastime that lacks efficiency and does not contribute to the common good.