Quotes from Paola Antonelli

Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.

Heaven is satisfied curiosity.

Not all design is for the general good.

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.

Life is tough; thank God there's design.

We live today not in the digital, not in the physical, but in the kind of minestrone that our mind makes of the two.

Small objects, like the Walkman first and then the iPod, create bubbles of space around us that enable us to have a metaphysical space that is much bigger than our physical space.

Good design is a Renaissance attitude that combines tech, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something.

Beauty and elegance are a right, not a surplus... . We must demand, at least, intention.

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.