Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the one with the most attractive exterior will win.

The most beautiful curve is a rising sales graph.

It's a simple exercise; a little logic, a little taste, and the will to cooperate.

The most reliable appliance has simplicity and quality, does what is demanded of it, is economical to use, easy to maintain, and just as easy to repair. ...It also sells best and looks good.

It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process beauty through function and simplification.

It all must start with an inspired, spontaneous idea.

I can claim to have made the daily life of the 20th Century more beautiful.

A designer must always think about the unfortunate production engineer who will have to manufacture what you have designed; try to understand his problems.

Ugliness does not sell.

Good design is not an applied veneer.

How could you fall in love with a three inch worm?

The world won't end with a bang or a whimper. It'll end with the death screams of a thousand demons and a defiant, carefree, savage, wolfen howl.

It still amazes him how they could have been misled by her personality in Year Eleven. It's what depression does to a person, it changes them completely.

When we as human beings, are trusted with life, but lack the value thereof, we are only left with one thing – abuse!

Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism.

I think the challenge is to takedifficult and painful times and turn them into something beneficial, something that makes you grow.

War is like any other bad relationship. Of course you want out, but at what price? And perhaps more importantly, once you get out, will you be any better off?" - Quellcrist Falconer

What would happen if we could arrange the atoms one by one the way we want them?

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat.

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.