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• “A house has to evolve and change”— Julian Chichester
• “To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master”— Milton Glaser
• “There are two things that make a room timeless: a sense of history and a piece of the future”— Charlotte Moss
• “I need contrastthe old and the new, the rough and the soft. The clash of it all is very sexy”— Catherine Malandrino
• “Your products run for election every day and good design is critical to winning the campaign.”— A.G. Lafley
• “The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.”— Dave Barry
• “People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.”— Mark Twain
• “Accessible design is good design.”— Steve Ballmer
• “Simplicity is not the goal. It is the byproduct of a good idea and modest expectations.”— Paul Rand
• “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”— Steve Jobs
• “The main goal is not to complicate the already difficult life of the consumer.”— Raymond Lowey
• “I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from toointimate contacts with my own furniture.”— Frank Lloyd Wright
• “Truly elegant design incorporates topnotch functionality into a simple, uncluttered form.”— David Lewis
• “A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering. ”— Freeman Dyson
• “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
• “I believe that architecture and decoration are art forms of the highest order. ”— Mariette Himes Gomez
• “Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket. ”— Robert Orben
• “Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to product something that the world didn't know it was missing. ”— Paola Antonelli
• “Style... isnt something that you apply like hand cream. It comes from within, as an emanation from your own being. Life is the canvas and style is the grooming point of view”— Jan de Luz
• “Science is a firstrate piece of furniture for a mans upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. ”— Oliver Wendell Holmes
• “Take the time and do some small thing that will be noticed and remembered. Choose your objects carefully, and buy only what you love.”— Charlotte Moss
• “I deeply believe that a beautiful decor can have a beneficial influence on our live.”— Albert Hadley
• “Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.”— Steve Jobs
• “Design is not a plan for decoration.”— Brian Collins
• “A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. ”— R. Buckminster Fuller
• “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”— Steve Jobs
• “The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.”— Bertrand Russell
• “When you take technology and mix it with art, you always come up with something innovative.”— Robert Rodriguez
• “A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. ”— Douglas Adams
• “Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose”— Charles Eames
• “Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department.”— Tom Peters
• “Im all about exuberance. We only have one short life to live, and we shouldnt waste it being tasteful”— Isaac Mizrahi
• “Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, thats why it is so complicated.”— Paul Rand
• “Design is everything. Everything!”— Paul Rand
• “I prefer design by experts by people who know what they are doing”— Don Norman
• “Design is the art of gradually applying constraints until only one solution remains.”— Unknown
• “Simple design, intense content.”— Edward Tufte
• “Toe: A part of the foot used to find furniture in the dark”— Unknown
• “Make every room a living room.”— Alexandra Stoddard
• “Be faithful to your own taste because nothing you really like is ever out of style.”— Billy Baldwin
• “To not dare is to have already lost. We should seek out ambitious, even unrealistic projects... because things only happen when we dream”— Andree Putman
• “Design is a response to social change.”— George Nelson