In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s interior decorating. It’s the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

The importance of logo into today’s fashion is un! be! Lievable!

Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.

We made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

The key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale.

I don’t want to use my creative energy on somebody else’s user interface.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

We 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.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

The path to the CEO’s office should not be through the CFO’s office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.

If 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.

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

Myths can’t be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it’s a drag? But you see, that’s what people do.

Help 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.

I call architecture frozen music.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.

Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.

I love designing at the moment, I’m so happy with my work.

The 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.

I 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.

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

I’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.

I love dresses, and I’ve definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

You 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.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

When written in Chinese, the word ‚crisis‘ is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Life is our dictionary.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

There’s place and means for every man alive.

Distance 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.

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.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

In 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.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

The 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.

People 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.

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

A 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.

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

I have so many designs and video ideas and lyrics in my head, so I always try to be productive.

The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.