Quotes About Progress

They should make new ways to better design buildings and books. The computer was the end of Swiss typography!

It's very easy to make something that is new. So we are trying to make things that are better.

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".

The advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable that we will begin to design our own evolutionary progress.

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.

Massive Change is not about the world of design; it's about the design of the world.

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

If you watched companies such as Sony and Samsung grow, they focused first on features and then on industrial design, which made their products look and feel better.

True simplicity is, well, you just keep on going and going until you get to the point where you go... Yeah, well, of course.

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

If our field is "to advance", we must - without displacing creativity and aesthetics - make sure our terminology is clear.

The upward thrust of evolution as part of the design becomes something to preserve and revere.

I am still ready to shake hands with anyone who designs a better assault rifle than mine.

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

The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century.

Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice.

A design isn't finished until somebody is using it. Brenda Laurel Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

The display is the computer.

Designing and developing anything of consequence is incredibly challenging.

The habit of calling a finished product a Design is convenient but wrong. Design is what you do, not what you've done.

Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems.

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

Design is the fundamental creative activity with which we direct our lives, and collectively, the earth's transformation from its original, natural state into our human-made world.