Theoretical Scientists Quotes by Ralph Caplan

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• Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous.
• A chair is the first thing you need when you don’t really need anything, and is therefore a peculiarly compelling symbol of…
• Attention must be paid’ is the cardinal rule of design discipline, for the designer is above all someone who pays attention to…
• If more designers had bad backs, we would have more good chairs.
• All our media are given over to things that are better left unsaid.
• Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them.
• We are … the un-proud non-possessors of objects whose chief substance is that of the transient symbol. Our Puritan fear of the…
• It is important to notice that these badly functioning designs were praised for 'elegance.' But elegance as theoretical scientists apply it is…

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