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> [The essential idea is that the quality of the result is continually at risk during the process of making.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-pye/the-essential-idea-is-that-the-quality-of-the-result-is-continually/)

[David Pye](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-pye/)

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## More by David Pye

> [Function is a fantasy...the form of designed things is decided by choice or else by chance; but it is never actually entailed by anything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-pye/function-is-a-fantasy-the-form-of-designed-things-is-decided-by/)

[David Pye](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-pye/)

> [The essential idea is that the quality of the result is continually at risk during the process of making.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-pye/the-essential-idea-is-that-the-quality-of-the-result-is-continually/)

[David Pye](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-pye/)

> [“Nothing we design or make ever really works??? Everything we design and make is an improvisation, a lash-up, something inept and provisional.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-pye/nothing-we-design-or-make-ever-really-works-everything-we-design-and/)

[David Pye](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-pye/)

> [“Workmanship is the application of technique to making, by the exercise of care, judgment, and dexterity.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-pye/workmanship-is-the-application-of-technique-to-making-by-the-exercise/)

[David Pye](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-pye/)

> [Everything we design and make is an improvisation, a lash-up, something inept and provisional.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-pye/everything-we-design-and-make-is-an-improvisation-a-lash-up-something/)

[David Pye](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-pye/)

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