“Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first. Originality consists of returning to the origin.”— Antoni Gaudí, amazon.com
“Intelligent people have spent far too much time talking about robots. What we need is fewer people imagining what robots could do and more people thinking about racism.”— Tibor Kalman, wired.com
“So I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That's what we really pay attention to anyway. We don't talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing.”— Tibor Kalman, wired.com
“We live in a society and a culture and an economic model that tries to make everything look right. Look at computers. Why are they all putty-colored or off-fucking-white? You make something off-white or beige because you are afraid to use any other color - because you don't want to offend anybody. B…”— Tibor Kalman, wired.com
“I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.”— Buckminster Fuller, amazon.com
“I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.”— Buckminster Fuller, amazon.com
“[A designer] is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.”— Buckminster Fuller, amazon.com
“The Celtic ‘system’ was designed to permit intelligent, winning players to endlessly use their own curiosity and creativity to accomplish results. That was why each of the players felt such an extraordinary commitment to the team. It was a living, everyday thing, a practice far more than a promise,…”— Bill Russell, csmonitor.com
“The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect — to help people work together — and not as a technical toy. The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies. We de…”— Tim Berners-Lee, amazon.com
“To design without fashion in mind, to design something legendary that has a sense of timelessness, a foreverness that still excites us, is what I aspire to.”— Ralph Lauren, global.ralphlauren.com
“I try to design into a world that is constantly moving, and moving me.”— Ralph Lauren, global.ralphlauren.com
“My dreams are my work. I design out of the things that I love.”— Ralph Lauren, global.ralphlauren.com
“I try to project a constant sensibility about life. To me, the clothing is not—it’s not just clothes. It’s how you live and what your dreams are... I’m always designing clothes for those dreams.”— Ralph Lauren, global.ralphlauren.com
“I don’t want to be this year’s fashion. I want to be forever. The kinds of clothes I design are the kinds of clothes that are timeless. I don’t want to be last year’s look. So in concept of my designing, I’m always very conscious of the timelessness and of not being trendy.”— Ralph Lauren, global.ralphlauren.com
“Classic, to me, is something that’s timeless, enduring. The things that never go out of style. Polo, the kinds of clothes I design are the kinds of things I believe in, the kinds of things that last forever. I love things that stay.”— Ralph Lauren, global.ralphlauren.com
“The way I do collections and what inspires me is a story or theme that gets to me... that says I know how to build this. I don’t build a collection from the sleeve or from a specific fabric. I build it out of a dream.”— Ralph Lauren, global.ralphlauren.com
“When I create a collection, I approach it with a cinematic point of view—I am not designing clothes, I’m creating a world.”— Ralph Lauren, global.ralphlauren.com
“Understanding aesthetics is difficult, it’s ultimately about very complex algorithms.”— Michael Spencer Jones, itsnicethat.com