Computers Quote by Paola Antonelli

Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.

— Paola Antonelli

Not all design is for the general good.

— Paola Antonelli

Designers need to be mavericks, because the best way to design a successful object is to pretend that either it never existed or that…

— Paola Antonelli

Be yourself, be in the moment, you’re going to be modern

— Paola Antonelli

The idea of being able to build things bottom up, atom by atom, has made [scientists] all into tinkerers. And all of a sudden…

— Paola Antonelli

People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about…

— Paola Antonelli

Beauty and elegance are a right, not a surplus... . We must demand, at least, intention.

— Paola Antonelli

While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must be.

— Paola Antonelli

Heaven is satisfied curiosity.

— Paola Antonelli

In an ideal world, social responsibility would be a prerequisite for design, and designers would vow to produce beautiful, useful, positive, responsible, functional, and…

— Paola Antonelli

Small objects, like the Walkman first and then the iPod, create bubbles of space around us that enable us to have a metaphysical space…

— Paola Antonelli

Ugly design should be rejected, just like nonfunctional design is rejected, just like nonenvironmentally conscious design should be rejected. It's a value.

— Paola Antonelli