Functional Quotes

177 quotes by 168 authors

I removed the freeway from its temporal context. Overpasses, cloverleafs, exit ramps took on the personality of Mayan ruins for me. Without destination, without cessation,… — Tom Robbins
The last collaborator is your audience ... when the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written. Things that seem to work… — Stephen Sondheim
A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue. — Cornel West
When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The same… — Jamais Cascio
Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics, without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained. — Ferdinand Porsche
A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy certain criteria, not only functional, but also psychological and aesthetic. Good design emphasizes the… — Dieter Rams
In my own mind, we are a much happier and much more functional family and a much more well balanced group of individual s both… — James Young
Combinatorics is an honest subject. No adÃ¨les, no sigma-algebras. You count balls in a box, and you either have the right number or you haven't.… — Gian-Carlo Rota
Functional exercise is not defined by what it looks like, it's defined by what it produces — Brett Jones
In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic. — Joseph Altuzarra
Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the given material and, to varying… — Earle Brown
When a silhouette or shape is as beautiful as it is functional and relevant, that's true luxury. — Reed Krakoff
The only product that's worth investing in is a fully functional musculoskeletal system. It's no luxury but rather a basic necessity that's within everyone's reach. — Pete Egoscue
Very rarely is there actually a functional reason for a fashion rule — Valerie Steele
Lobbyists are in many cases expert technicians and capable of explaining complex and difficult subjects in a clear, understandable fashion. They engage in personal discussions… — John F. Kennedy
What you get out of an M.B.A. programme, no matter how much experience, is functional tools and understanding in disciplines: you'll understand economics, you'll understand… — Henry Mintzberg
I think that business leaders today have to be more rounded than they used to be, they have to be completely multi-functional and fast-moving. — Stuart Rose
I wouldn't say design has become strictly functional. A lot of cars these days look downright comic book to me, and the info-gadgets with which… — Scott Westerfeld
One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and economy and even culture that is, on some… — Geoffrey West
Architecture was, or is, a kind of hobby, an inclination I have to fiddling around and building things. Putting up shelves or cupboards, or making… — Gerhard Richter

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