. . . people who don't want something are less likely to get it than people who do want something.
The designer's job is to imagine the world not how it is, but how it should be.
The living room should be a place where we feel totally at ease - temple of the soul.
If our homes should provide anything, they should provide a sense of who we are and how we got here, a sense of connection balanced by a sense of direction and progress.
Home is the heart of life Home is where we feel at ease, where we belong, where we can create surroundings that reflect our tastes and pleasures Making a home is a form of creativity open to everyone.
Good design is probably 98% common sense. Above all, an object must function well and efficiently-and getting that part right requires a good deal of time and attention.
Furniture and food are ways that people define their attitude toward life. They'll buy better stuff if it's offered to them.
Art is emotion without desire.
Leading economists have shown that by shrinking Texas, we can actually create more income for Texas in the long run.
Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of honour to have information about everything, every stone, plant, battle, or experiment and about all books, collectively and individually. It never occurs to them that information is merely a means to insight, but in itself is of little or no value.
Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of the environment.