Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection.
Tesla is changing the paradigm. We're going to turn the world on its ear and create high demand through design.
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
A part of my kind of design and inspiration ethos is that I carry around a leather notebook and I sketch in it, doodle in it, write notes in it, and I put pictures in it.
I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
Sustainability can't be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a design challenge.
Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.
The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.
A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
