Quotes About Progress

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.

We don't do focus groups - that is the job of the designer. It's unfair to ask people who don't have a sense of the opportunities of tomorrow from the context of today to design.

Why would you design something if it didn't improve the human condition?

When you make a company, you make a utopia. It's where you design your perfect world.

I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.

Evolution is cleverer than you are.

Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.

To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

I think design does evolve in a meaningful sense. I think if you look at design as a part of the continuum of communication, since even before Guttenberg.

Different and new is relatively easy. Doing something thats genuinely better is very hard.

There's no way to design a society that's optimal or utopian. It's better than the one that was. Systems always undergo change.

To implement a true urban renaissance, you first need a Grand Design elaborated by strong leadership .

Really great products, like @nest, have #design baked in from the beginning instead of slapped on at the end.

I'm interested in designing not the object but the process that leads to the object.

I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter

Kids are taking PCs and the Internet to new heights. They're the ones that are designing the cutting-edge web sites.

The best kind of design isn't necessarily an object, a space, or a structure: it's a process- dynamic and adaptable.

There's no such thing as designing the perfect utopian city. Everything is subject to change. There are no final frontiers.

I'm operating in the gap between the trajectory of modernity and the trajectory of modernism. So what people think is design is not design, it's my attempt to engage with the trajectory of modernity.

It's difficult for a company to be anywhere interesting in a world that is so dominated by prototypes and great and bright ideas.

We should not try to design a better world. We should make better feedback loops.

There are 9 rejected ideas for every idea that works.

Evolution advances, not by a priori design, but by the selection of what works best out of whatever choices offer. We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.

I don't really play overseas stuff. I'm a bit of a dinosaur in that way. You gonna improve on a Les Paul or Fender Stratocaster? Those are perfect designs, and there is nothing to add really.