Design ethos: key aphorisms

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.R. Buckminster Fuller

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurableLouis Kahn

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.Walter Gropius

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.Steve Jobs

What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together.Mitchell Kapor

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.Thomas A. Edison

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.Charles Eames

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.Thomas A. Edison

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.Frank Lloyd Wright

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.Thomas A. Edison

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.Frank Lloyd Wright

In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.Donald Norman

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.R. Buckminster Fuller

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.Herbert Simon

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.R. Buckminster Fuller

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.R. Buckminster Fuller

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.R. Buckminster Fuller

I'm drawn to furniture design as complete

architecture on a minor scale.Brad Pitt

Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the

design process.Maria Sharapova

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