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Minimalism is not defined by what is not there but by the rightness of what is and the richness with which this is experienced.
Why is it when we have a bad experience with a product, we assume it is us, but a bad experience with food, we blame the food?!
Make each product the best it can be. Focus on form and materials. What we don't include is as important as what we do include.
There are many design companies, but there are few designers who organize their own business and open it up to other designers.
I love the shape of cars. They are very inspiring as modern pieces of machinery. I can't drive, but I do like the look of them.
I think, in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.
When you are too specific on a target, it can drain you. Ask me where I will be when I am 60, and I will have no answer to give.
Urban design is where the number are and easy size of installation plus the fast lessons to extend out to larger design acreage.
I've always wanted to design a Mustang. I just never really had the opportunity in my career because the timing was never right.
There's an applied style of being minimal and simple, and then there's real simplicity. This looks simple, because it really is.
Eight years of work can be copied in six months. It wasn't inevitable that it was going to work. A stolen design is stolen time.
As a property developer, I learned a long time ago to choose your battles wisely and that, unfortunately, compromise is a given.
Structure is the most important component in a successful planting; colour is important too but it is a secondary consideration.
The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
People lost the capacity of using their brain. It's all about the label. Not about the labels showing but subtlety of the labels.
There is an element of seduction in shoes that doesn't exist for men. A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes.
The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing men. Men are like bulls. They cannot resist the red sole.
That's just tragic, that you can spend four years of your life studying the design of three dimensional objects and not make one.
It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life... what is a life but a history of events badly remembered?
The thing that I champion is sustainability. My terror is that suddenly we see it as a luxury, not an essential. That's a danger.
It's difficult for a company to be anywhere interesting in a world that is so dominated by prototypes and great and bright ideas.
The scale relates to everything. The thickness of a pipe, the thickness of a leg of the furniture. Even color could have a scale.
My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.
When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.
You start with the right amount of rational and emotional experiences. You have to blend those in your product when you come out.
The best way to quiet a country is a good thrashing, followed by great kindness afterwards. Even the wildest chaps are thus tamed.
If I could do shoes for anyone, it would be a special project for the Queen of England. She and the Pope are the ultimate clients.
We were trained from cartoons. Everything who was on the screen was chosen. Anything who was not there was deliberately not there.
You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. Its logic-based creativity.
As consumers we are incredibly discerning, we sense where has been great care in the design, and when there is cynicism and greed.
I really feel that design has the capacity to communicate, and I really have concentrated on the communication of positive values.
Despite its simple and humble design, Zik is certainly today one of our most successful products in terms of intuitive ergonomics.
Dolce & Gabbana is like our child. The editing of a collection before a show is a tough call, as we would like to show everything!
I'm really hoping just to keep building on what we're doing. You have to build your core business first which is really important.
I don't repeat that many styles if I can help, although some have become classics. I try not to repeat. I'd rather surprise people.
Ajax isn't a technology. It's really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways.
Teaching people the best way to market organically with Facebook, is like teaching them the best way to butter bread, with a spoon.
You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity.
I spent a lot of years working for Ralph Lauren, and he had so many copycats, from Tommy Hilfiger to Abercrombie & Fitch to J.Crew.
The iPhone was broadly dismissed. The iPod was broadly dismissed. The iPad was probably more copiously written off as a large iPod.
When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.
I have a personal motto that I live by, which is feel the fear and do it anyway. If you fail, you get up and you keep trying again.
I truly believe that everything Sci-fi taught me as a child about an efficient and wondrous world will be happening in my lifetime.
Fashion, after all, is magic and miracle…intended to bestow proportion and beauty where both have been lost or faded with the years.
Innovation at Apple has always been a team game. It has always been a case where you have a number of small groups working together.
The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
I like to come up first of all with a free idea, thinking about and obviously understanding what is necessary for it to become a car.
Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.
I often ask myself, 'What would design be like if objects were made of a single part? Would we return to a better state of creation?'
I don't really understand what the public perception of me is. I think public perception and reality are two wholly different things.