I believe most in educated intuition, in what you get through profound experience.

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.

How the prisoner and the immigrant are treated by the government, how the poor are treated and those without influence: this is secretly how the government would like to treat us all.

I sort of feel like Cindy Crawford's new husband on their wedding night. I know what's expected of me. I'm just not sure I've got the ability to make it interesting.

When we pray for death we really desire a fuller life.

I stress a lot, sometimes.

Nothing burps better than bacon.

If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works.

Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.

Co-mingling really disturbs a lot of the purists, who want to see the historical and cultural divides instead of the meshing.

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

Without the bitter the sweet aint as sweet