Quotes About Adaptation

Life is something that happens to you while you're making other plans.

An end of something means the beginning of something else, and I don't think that something else is going to be the death of the manned space program.

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

Everything that we design is designing us back

Design is a response to social change.

Advocates for a single line of progress encounter their greatest stumbling block when they try to find a smooth link between the apparently disparate designs of the invertebrates and vertebrates.

If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage.

There is no one, right way to design or develop anything. To a large degree, it needs to reflect the culture - especially the innovation culture - of a company.

If our designs for private houses are to be correct, we must at the outset take note of the countries and climates in which they are built.

What you do is look at yourself and find your own way to address the fact that the times have changed and that you have to pay attention. You can't be a designer and say, "Oh, this is timeless".

We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.

We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.

Imitate. Don't be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You'll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable.

We must accept human error as inevitable - and design around that fact.

Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

I'm always conscious of the context, the history, the specific environment of anything that I design and what it is going to be operating within.

Design is the best way to get from A to B when you don't yet know what B is.

I like to talk about the idea of "design without design," where... we're creating the conditions for the things that we want to see happen rather than trying to force a particular set of outcomes.

Working within the constraints of a problem is part of the fun and challenge of design.

If you never budge, don't expect a push.

Design acknowledges change. Its meaning encompasses change in our times. To design is to 'create order and to function according to a plan.' The notion of change and design move along the same path.