Design is much more profound. Styling is very much emotional. Good design isn’t — it’s good forever. It’s part of our environment and culture.”

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

— Attributed to Albert Einstein

only sustainable medium for morality is affection—and moreover, he introduces a language for affection that is informed, practical, and practiced.

Don’t make something unless it is both necessary and useful; but if it is both necessary and useful, don’t hesitate to make it beautiful.

Similarly, we might think of design method as a process for inquiry into the purposes, plans, and intentions behind what humans make and do.

designers ought to be the loudest and most insistent proponents for discovering new and better ways to produce goods and services

To design is to make decisions for others. Because it involves an exchange of power, however slight, design is best understood as a moral pursuit.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.

the people best equipped to solve any given problem in a durable way are those most familiar with the full complexity of the problem