Quotations

Quotations

Insights from designers and innovators

  • “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    Søren Kierkegaard
  • “Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.”
    Salvador Dali
  • “It must be borne in mind that the object being worked on is going to be ridden in, sat upon, looked at, talked into, activated, operated, or in some way used by people individualy or en masse.”
    Henry Dreyfuss
  • “Institutions will try to preserve the problem for which they are the solution.”
    Clay Shirky
  • “The reason to have a design firm is to have lunch every day with interesting people”
    Jay Doblin
  • “A design attitude views each project as an opportunity for invention that includes a questioning of basic assumptions and a resolve to leave the world a better place than we found it.”
    Richard Boland & Fred Collopy (2004), Managing as Designing

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