Quotes About Functionality

Beautiful, seamless upgrade from Twitter today, making functionality smoother and cooler. We didn't have to lobby, didn't have to beg, didn't have to elect a new leader, didn't have to push or protest. Progress is built in to the structure of the mechanism itself: this company exists to please you and me. This is a far better system than any political system on earth.

I don't like a clever toilet looking at our butts.

Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new features.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

I've never been fast, but I can move well enough to do what I need to do.

I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in.

I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.

I do not know if we play the most beautiful or attractive football, but we certainly play more intelligently, more functionally and more precisely than anyone else.

Mobile devices are kind of at the opposite end of PCs, in that PCs are pretty open and you can do a fair amount with them, but many mobile devices aren't.

I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.

The point is that I don't design stuff for myself. I'm a toolmaker. I design things that other people want to use.

The brain was designed by evolution, so each part of it is optimized for what it does, and it's incredibly, incredibly complex.

Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.

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

FUNCTIONS SHOULD DO ONE THING. THEY SHOULD DO IT WELL. THEY SHOULD DO IT ONLY.

Software has two types of value: the value of its behavior and the value of its structure. The second of these is the greater of the two because it is this value that makes software soft.

The name of a variable, function, or class, should answer all the big questions. It should tell you why it exists, what it does, and how it is used. If a name requires a comment, then the name does not reveal its intent.

Architects separate functionality based on how, why, and when it changes, and then organize that separated functionality into a hierarchy of components.

The first concern of the architect is to make sure that the house is usable — not to ensure that the house is made of bricks.

Whether you are designing systems or individual modules, never forget to use the simplest thing that can possibly work.

It was a plain table, and unadorned like all of her furnishings, some of which she suspected might be of indifferent workmanship. A trivial matter; so long as furniture did what it was supposed to do, nothing more mattered

The motorcycle is a system. A real system.

every successful hardware has a software behind

The zoologist is delighted by the differences between animals, whereas the physiologist would like all animals to work in fundamentally the same way.