Quotes About Innovation

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

Yaz?l?m konusunda iddial? insanlar kendi donan?mlar?n? yapmal?lar.

I'd dropped out of college to start design thing.

Everything that I do has a certain mechanical logic to it, and follows my definition of design--which is function with cultural content.

No architect should design buildings that import a huge amount of energy.

Meta-design is much more difficult than design; it's easier to draw something than to explain how to draw it.

Designing is a lot like a high-wire act - if the tightrope walker is only six inches off the ground, where's the excitement?

The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.

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.

Designing came to me. I didn't have to move.

When I arrived at Harvard, I wanted to design a course in political theory that would have interested me, back when I was started out, in a way that the standard things didn't.

The hardware and the software will come from Silicon Valley. But the watch case, the dial, the design, the idea, the crown, that part of the watch will, of course, be Swiss.

We shouldn't be afraid to fail- if we are not failing we are not pushing.

If you're a marketer who doesn't know how to invent, design, influence, adapt, and ultimately discard products, then you're no longer a marketer. You're deadwood.

I need a new unit to sample and hold, but not an angry one, a new design, new design.

It's one of the curses of designing that when you look at anything, you're constantly thinking, Why? Why - why was it designed like that, and not like this?

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

If something is going to be better, it is new, and if it's new you are confronting problems and challenges you don't have references for.

The computer industry is creatively bankrupt.

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

I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.

I tend to gravitate toward Proenza Schouler and Alexander Wang. Their designs are accessible and easy.

My sense of designing is a mix of intuition and intellectual control.

Design can also be used to invent strategic futures, make complex decisions, and craft a bold corporate vision. We need to move design up the ladder of influence.