Quotes about Functionality

The best design is the simplest one that works.

It is the height of illogic to think that humans originated from anything with lower functionality than themselves—from a something instead of a Someone.

Great design will not sell an inferior product, but it will enable a great product to achieve its maximum potential.

Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.

A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.

Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survive

I want pockets in my dresses. I put pockets in everything! I want pockets inside my pockets.

But differentiation loses its meaning when the features and functionality have exceeded what the market demands.

In a modular world, supplying a component or assembling outsourced components are both appropriate "solutions." In the interdependent world of inadequate functionality, attempting to provide one piece of the system doesn't solve anybody's problem. Knowing this, we can predict the failure or success of a growth business based on managers' choices to compete with modular architectures when the circumstances mandate interdependence, and vice versa.

The more closely our maps or paradigms are aligned with these principles or natural laws, the more accurate and functional they will be. Correct maps will infinitely impact our personal and interpersonal effectiveness far more than any amount of effort expended on changing our attitudes and behaviors.

You can make them so small that they almost disappear, but I think headlights are also part of the face of a car.