Quotes About Functionality

Most architects say: I want to use this type of glass, even if it's too reflective or doesn't let enough light in. However, the use of a certain type of glass might change the comfort level.

I think a beautiful product that doesn't work very well is ugly.

American products are marvels of production and functionality, but were unnecessarily and unbearably ugly, noisy smelly and offensive.

We knew that iMac was fast; we didn't need to make it ugly.

Our ultimate goal is extensible programming (EP). By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system.

Like public surface in general, sewers are unbelievably important. They're so important that we make sure they work basically all of the time. Which is why you never think of them - that's kind of the point.

En contraposición al racionalismo arquitectónico, en 1939 los arquitectos Antonio Bonet, Juan Kurchan y Jorge Ferrari Hardoy, discípulos de Le Corbusier, conformaron el Grupo Austral, cuyo objetivo fue la incorporación de procedimientos surrealistas en la formación racionalista de los arquitectos y la dimensión psicológica dentro del funcionalismo del movimiento moderno.

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

When you try on something, you have to ask yourself, 'How many ways could I wear this? Could I wear it to work? To dinner or drinks? Will it span the seasons' If you have to think too hard about those questions, then skip it.

The form of computers has never been important, with speed and performance being the only things that mattered.

My kitchen's pink, like skin-tone pink, and I lowered my spice rack so it's eye level - it's true! - and my phone, so I can reach it when I fall, it's right there.

The technology I like is the American paperback edition of 'Freedom.' I can spill water on it, and it would still work! So it's pretty good technology.

Insubordinate/undisciplined witch—murders colleagues, not on board with mission objectives, declines to disclose functionality

My thoughts are more in line with those of Jaron Lanier, who points out that while hardware might be getting faster all the time, software is shit (I am paraphrasing his argument). And without software to do something useful with all that hardware, the hardware's nothing more than a really complicated space heater.

Remember, these things are designed for amateurs." "Tell me about it," Ivy snorted. "The user interface is so easy to use, I can't do anything.

What am I always going to do? I'm going to go home and freak out.I'm going to sit with my family and try not to talk about myself and what's wrong. Im going to try and eat. Then I'm going to try and sleep. I dread it. I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?

I'm going to go home and freak out. I'm going to sit with my family and try not to talk about myself and what's wrong. I'm going to try and eat. Then I'm going to try and sleep. I dread it. I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?

I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?

If a glass tabletop was half a centimeter thick, its support and legs precisely doubled or tripled that measure. The iPhone also depended on the exact relation of proportions, so that a sense of rightness enters the user.

The panoply of consumers has iPhones or the lower-priced clones not because of what they represent but because of what they do.

I want a UI that is so simple that drunks can use it and ADDs won't be distracted away.

Company engineers helped to design Westborough, and they made it functional and cheap. One contractor who did some work for Data General was quoted in Fortune as saying, "What they call tough auditing, we call thievery.

The beautiful is as useful as the useful. He added after a moment's silence, Perhaps more so.

The beautiful is just as useful as the useful.