Quotes About Integration

Closed systems are extremely dangerous because they deself their members and deprive them of self-esteem. Closed systems are dangerous because they allow no feedback. When no new information can be integrated into a system, it feeds upon itself and becomes an absolutizing agent. Its own beliefs become sacred laws; its own rules infallible; its own leaders all-powerful. This is exactly the problem with monarchial patriarchy and the poisonous pedagogy it spawns.

it is difficult to discern where "you" end and the remainder of the world begins.

First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then…?

GROWING SYNERGY—their effectiveness is greater than the sum of the contributions

How do I fit in my area or department? • How do all the departments fit into the organization? • Where does our organization fit in the market? • How is our market related to other industries and the economy?

You have to be yourself while speaking someone else's language.

Me without you is like a sneaker without laces, a Geek without braces, andasentencewithoutspaces.

Me without you is like: A sneaker without laces; A geek without braces; Asentencewithoutspaces.

For every good person that comes from Brooklyn or the Bronx, there are some bad people who bring their more criminal-intensive ways to small communities. We think we can be an antidote to that.

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.

Design... is the integration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and space.

Everything is design. Everything!

The best designs are those that dissolve into behavior.

Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.

It should look as if it has always been like that, as if Nature had made it that way. That's good design.

I'm always conscious of the context, the history, the specific environment of anything that I design and what it is going to be operating within.

Designing a landscape is about connecting the body, soul and mind to the land itself.

Content informs design; design without content is decoration.

The design process is about designing and prototyping and making. When you separate those, I think the final result suffers.

The best designers will use many design patterns that dovetail and intertwine to produce a greater whole.

When we hire someone, even if they are going to be in marketing, I will have them talk to the design folks and the engineers.

The display is the computer.

Traditional communication design and the digital revolution will certainly blend and integrate, as clients' communications needs rarely involve just one medium.

I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.