No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry AdamsNothing can have value without being an object of utility.
Karl MarxI don’t think of poetry as a ‚rational‘ activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me.
Margaret AtwoodWhy are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?
Woody AllenPeople assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.
Brian EnoWe no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn’t worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often ‚crash‘ when we tried to use them.
Douglas AdamsWe shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
Winston ChurchillBlack-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.
Karl LagerfeldLike any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.
Bill GatesWords may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.
Benjamin FranklinThe meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
Karl MarxWe might as well die as to go on living like this.
Charlie ChaplinA lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.
Steve JobsLife has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
Jean-Paul SartreDistance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.
BonoThe reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Winston ChurchillWe made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them.
Steve JobsIn a certain way, it’s the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.
David ByrneLet us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
Oscar WildeThey can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
Henry David ThoreauI decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
SocratesIf particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.
PlatoAll meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
George EliotArt is to be free. Design is to fix.
Kanye WestIf Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
Bill ShanklyLife is our dictionary.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn’t be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers.
Bill GatesI’ve got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.
Vivienne WestwoodWords differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.
Blaise PascalFrank Lloyd Wright… his things were beautiful but not very functional.
David ByrneI design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.
Vivienne WestwoodMyths can’t be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
Margaret AtwoodI enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.
Frank OceanThe key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale.
Elon MuskPreachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.
Dr. SeussThe artist in me cries out for design.
Robert FrostMeals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.
Anthony BourdainHelp others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerBeauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.
Oscar WildeThe thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they’re not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.
Vivienne WestwoodYou will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert CamusYou can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
Walt DisneyWe require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
John RuskinNature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
Richard P. FeynmanFashion is made to become unfashionable.
Coco ChanelI love designing at the moment, I’m so happy with my work.
Vivienne WestwoodThe importance of logo into today’s fashion is un! be! Lievable!
Karl LagerfeldLyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
Brian EnoNo one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry AdamsReason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C. S. LewisMy fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
Huey NewtonWhen written in Chinese, the word ‚crisis‘ is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
John F. KennedyAs Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite array of expressions of a language; the information so derived is accessed by other systems in language use.
Noam ChomskyProse is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
Ernest HemingwayLuxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.
Coco ChanelWhat do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
Charlie ChaplinThere’s place and means for every man alive.
William ShakespeareDesign is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.
Steve JobsTo live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Friedrich NietzscheIt’s a rather rude gesture, but at least it’s clear what you mean.
Katharine Hepburn