Quotes About Functionality

Even the bins looked beautiful to her. They simply were what they were and were doing a splendid job being just that.

A much more meaningful perspective is to teach this population the academic and interpersonal skills they need to be functional in the world and use their talents to the best of their ability.

How to explain to the earth that it was more functional as a vegetable patch than a flower garden, just as factories were more functional than schools and boys were more functional as weapons than as humans.

Good technology is intuitive - the cellphone forces you to become an engineer.

Macs are not intuitive. It's intuitive to the person who created it. It's not intuitive to me.

The iPad! What is better designed than that? I read magazines on it, I play Scrabble. I use it for everything.

Obviously anything that accessorizes or enhances the iPhone is always pretty cool.

I think that men's clothing should be functional. If there's a rip in his jeans, it should be because he was out working, not because he ripped them so they looked cool. It's even better if they're ripped because he got in a fight.

Denim should always be comfortable; jeans should protect you. They are workwear.

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

A society remains functional as long as too many people aren't corrupt in too many places for too long.

You know the definition of the perfectly designed machine.... The perfectly designed machine is one in which all its working parts wear out simultaneously. I am that machine.

Some things just work . There is elegance in simplicity.

Travel aesthetics should be just as comfortable and practical as they are fashionable.

Every traveler knows too well the endless quest for the perfect travel bag: the one that's stylish enough to carry through Paris, sturdy enough to tote around Peru, and - most important - doesn't make your shoulder sag even before you've loaded it up with everything you need for a day of sightseeing.

More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice.

I think it's ultimately inhuman to only see things for their functionality. We want things to be more than that. The desire for beauty is something that's in us, and it's not trivial.

The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

As a rule, conventions only become conventions if they work.

Someone once told me they didn't like taking the lid off the kettle because they'd just lose it in the kitchen, so we made a kettle with an attached lid that you slide. It was in response to that that we made one that did something different.

Any woman who has attempted to slip a credit card into an inch-deep trouser pocket knows about the annoying puzzle of women's clothing: Pockets rarely work.

Blueprints were introduced in Chapter 7 as a way to define routes in the global scope after the creation of the application was moved into a factory function. The routes related to the user authentication system can be added to a auth blueprint. Using different blueprints for different sets of application functionality is a great way to keep the code neatly organized.

Everything is designed. Few things are designed well.

When the objects we use every day and the surroundings we live in have become in themselves a work of art, then we shall be able to say that we have achieved a balanced life.