Quotes About Functionality

The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

Design is more important than technology in most consumer applications.

For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter.

Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.

A lot of the key to Apple's succes is Designing technology in order to hide it.

Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.

Hey, don't knock it. It still runs. Most of the time, even after I turn it off." Jo

Can you run down whatever's blocked Sally's awareness of the event? I… what are the odds that that's evidence of… that worm, or something that's still messing with her functionality?" "Working on it." Loese waved me out of the cubby and sealed the hatch. "Really, really working on it. Now go do your job.

It had been impressed on Rien all through her childhood how fragile the habitable sphere was, and how much functionality had been lost through accident, negligence, malice, and the simple gnawing of entropy.

Nanoprocessors along my damaged spinal cord, improving in its functionality; the reflex boast that makes me potentially able to steer this improbable starship.

All librarians, deep down, loathe their buildings. Something is always wrong—the counter is too high, the shelves too narrow, the delivery entrance too far from the offices. The hallway echoes. The light from windows bleaches books. In short, libraries are constructed by architects, not librarians.

He regarded meals as a waste of time and ate because his body required it; that was all.

Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles.

Airports need an identity, a main hall that defines the dignity of the space and allows people to move fluidly throughout its ancillary parts.

I was living in Paris, which is a very beautiful, very wonderful place, but a tight place as a city, a tight place culturally. Its people are very brilliant, thoughtful, the place functions, but it's a historical place in some ways, like a big museum.

We will make our products work out of the box.

In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.

Kitchen design experts recommend that there be at least four feet of space between each point of your work triangle (e.g., between your refrigerator and sink) but no more than nine feet across the furthest points (think about how inconvenient a ten-foot walk between your sink and stove would be!).

Our clothing, our food, our household furnishings - all could be much simpler than they now are and at the same time be better looking

A fancy watch, it's completely unnecessary. I just need a watch to tell the right time.

Nowhere in Rama had there been any trace of artistic expression; everything was purely functional. Perhaps the Ramans felt that they already knew the ultimate secrets of the universe, and were no longer haunted by the yearnings and aspirations that drove mankind.

My philosophy is best summed up by the phrase 'plain, simple, and useful.' Such things may not win many design prizes, but neither do they go out of fashion.