"French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism."

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"They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese."

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"In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism."

Cultural, Elegance, Individualism, Italy, Taste

"I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines."

Books, Clothes, Grandparents, Old

"Italy is a divided country without a center."

Nation, Country, Italy

"I translated Beatles songs for my English class."

Language, Class, English, Songs

"The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed."

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"The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea."

Creativity, Idea, Tea

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Liz Phair, American Musician

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"I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving."

Jeffery Veen, American Entrepreneur

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Ivan Chermayeff, British Designer

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"Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actually."

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"There's always some kind of hidden logic."

"French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism."

"We all look for lost time."

"They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese."

"In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism."

"I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines."

"Italy is a divided country without a center."

"I translated Beatles songs for my English class."

"The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed."

"The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea."

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"We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world."

"Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?"

"People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people."

"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."

"I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting."

"I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response."

"I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate."

"I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving."

"Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution."

"Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actually."