Quotes About Functionality

Well the most successful of course was this Polypropylene chair.

Most men are of naught more use in their lives but as machines for turning food into sh*t.

You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture.

Truth is what works.

Bad design is the default mode, since it takes the least effort to create.

I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing.

These amazing and often indispensable systems work so well and so quietly that we tend to be unaware of their existence.

If God had meant for us to walk, why did he give us feet that fit car pedals?

In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good

Good design means as little design as possible.

Good design emphasises the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.

Good design is probably 98% common sense. Above all, an object must function well and efficiently-and getting that part right requires a good deal of time and attention.

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

Everyday people are not very good designers.

Twitter is so stupid. I mean, it sucks! It's not a good way to communicate and it's really difficult to use it for any functional thing.

A large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way.

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

As designers we have a great responsibility. I believe designers should eliminate the unnecessary. That means eliminating everything that is modish because this kind of thing is only short-lived.

Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role.

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.

All I really want is a three-room house. The home I have designed at my new farm in Bedford, New York, is a three-room house: bedroom on top, living room in the middle, and kitchen on the ground.

It's great to design a beautiful, modern, sleek home like you'd see in a magazine. But if it doesn't suit your lifestyle, it's really wasted.

You can pipe anything to anything else, and usually it'll do something. With most of the standard Linux tools, it'll even do what you expect.