Here at Westfall Design we love to read quotes. We feel they are often offer a concise snippet that gets right to the heart of the matter, offering good insight and inspiration. Below we have started a list of some of our favorites. Check back weekly, and enjoy!
- If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. ~Red Adair
- Never do anything yourself that you can hire someone else to do, especially if they can do it better. ~Bill Bernback
- Dare to be naive. ~Buckminster Fuller
- The question of whether a device will come into being depends upon three things: first, whether there is a practical use for it that warrants its development and manufacturing costs; second, whether the laws of physics applying to the elements available for its design allow the attainment of the needed ranges, sensitivities, or the like; and third, whether the pertinent art of manufacture has advanced sufficiently to allow a useful embodiment to be built successfully. ~Vannevar Bush
- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. ~Arthur C. Clarke
- Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication. ~Leonardo da Vinci
- Continuity is not only the uninterrupted steps from one point to another, but it is also the cohesive force that holds a diverse composition together. ~Donis A. Dondis
- Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as to best accomplish a particular purpose. ~Charles Eames
- Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! Any other bright-minded fellow can accomplish just as much if he will stick like hell and remember nothing that’s any good works by itself. You’ve got to make the damn thing work!…I failed my way to success. ~Thomas Edison
- We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. ~Albert Einstein
- Form follows emotion. ~Hartmut Esslinger
- Most products are ugly. The harsh reality is that in many of these markets, form follows funding. And that products go where the market takes them. ~Bran Ferren
- Don’t find a fault. Find a remedy. ~Henry Ford
- No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended. ~Adrian Forty
- Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. ~Thomas Edison
- Less is only more where more is no good. ~Frank Lloyd Wright
- Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. ~Frank Lloyd Wright
- Space is the breath of art. ~Frank Lloyd Wright
- To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master. ~Milton Glaser
- Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. ~Steve Jobs