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There is no better designer than nature
Sep 17, 2025
Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.
If you can design one thing, you can design everything.
Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.
You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
Failure is built into creativity... the creative act involves this element of 'newness' and 'experimentalism,' then one must expect and accept the possibility of failure.
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.
Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
Good artists copy, great artists steal.
Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance.
Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Life is about trying things to see if they work.
If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.
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.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.
Design is where science and art break even.
The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.
Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.
Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
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