Quotes About Legacy

I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with Prudential. All I can say is: When I go they go!

I want to die like my grandfather died . . . peacefully in his sleep. Not like the other three people screaming in the car.

The best way to get praise is to die.

No matter how rich you become how famous or powerful when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death now I see it from my son's perspective.

We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.

I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.

A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.

Leave this world a little better than you found it.

If you do it right, it will last forever.

Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not.

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

Designers shouldn't design for museums any more than mummies should die for them.

MY INSPIRATION FOR THIS LIMITED EDITION DESIGN WAS BASED ON THE LEGACY OF HENNESSY AS A BRAND. TO ME, HENNESSY HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT QUALITY, AUTHENTICITY, TRADITION, AND ELEGANCE.

Someday I'll design a typeface without a K in it, and then let's see the bastards misspell my name.

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

There is an immediate payoff to intelligent design: it destroys the atheistic legacy of Darwinian evolution. Intelligent design makes it impossible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.

The principal and only way to make an heirloom product is to design something that people will need not just this year, but for the next 50 or 100 years.

I'm interested in designing for posterity.

In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.

A lot of times, you design a logo to be timeless, but with something like the Olympics, timelessness is maybe not something you should be going for.

I don't really play overseas stuff. I'm a bit of a dinosaur in that way. You gonna improve on a Les Paul or Fender Stratocaster? Those are perfect designs, and there is nothing to add really.

I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making.

I have had built, from my designs, over 40,000 living units, and that's more than any other architect that I know of.