Functionality Quotes - Page 2

• I try to bring as much taste, smartness, quality, functionality, and aesthetic qualities to everyday clothes.

  Christophe Lemaire

  Clothes, Everyday, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• "Authenticity" doesn't mean much to me. I just want "good", in the sense of well-designed, well-constructed, long-lasting garments. My interest in military clothing stems from that. It's not about macho, playing soldiers, anything militaristic. It's the functionality, the design-solutions, the durability. Likewise workwear.

  William Gibson

  Military, Mean, Long

  Source: www.heddels.com

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• In its heyday, the car was an expression of technical flair and design genius: the original Mini, the Beetle, the 2CV, and the Fiat 500 were all, in their various ways, inspired incarnations of functionality.

  Martin Jacques

  Expression, Car, Design

  "Auto-political" by Martin Jacques, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2008.

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• My definition of elegance is the achievement of a given functionality with a minimum of mechanism and a maximum of clarity.

  Fernando J. Corbato

  Achievement, Definitions, Clarity

  "Computers, Ethics & Social Values". Book edited by Deborah G. Johnson and Helen Fay Nissenbaum, 1995.

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• Sick is a relative concept. We're all sick. The question is, what degree of functionality do we have with respect to the rules society sets for desirable behavior? No actions are in themselves symptoms of sickness. You have to look at the context within which these actions are performed.

  Jo Nesbo

  Sick, Degrees, Looks

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• More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but thats more like a spice.

  Tadashi Yanai

  Fashion, Needs, Spices

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• Whereas smaller computer languages have features designed into them, C++ is unusual in having a whole swathe of functionality discovered, like a tract of 19th century Africa.

  Verity Stob

  Language, Computer, Unusual

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• This project started nearly twenty years ago as an assignment in my typography class at art school. Students were encouraged to see letters beyond their dull, practical functionality. We played with their unique shapes and tinkered with their infinite possibilities. The challenge was hard, so the reward of “cracking” a word felt great. This became a lifelong project for me.

  Ji Lee

  Art, School, Unique

  "Word as Image: 90 Animated Words". Book by Ji Lee, October 4, 2011.

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• I think it's ultimately inhuman to only see things for their functionality. We want things to be more than that. The desire for beauty is something that's in us, and it's not trivial.

  Stefan Sagmeister

  Thinking, Desire, Want

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• The Matisse seemed to respond to the decreasing light by increasing its own wattage. Every object in the room was drained of color, but the Matisse stood firm in the de-escalating illumination, its beauty turning functionality inside out, making itself a more practical and useful presence than anything else in sight.

  Steve Martin

  Light, Sight, Illumination

  Steve Martin (2010). “An Object of Beauty”, p.75, Hachette UK

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• Luxury starts where functionality ends and where the true value is personal and so has no price or reason.

  Marcel Wanders

  Luxury, Design, Opulence

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• Google is in a position where it doesn't even have to strive to become a hip, conscious choice. Brands are temporary fads. Functionality is forever. Google just has to 'be,' and everyone will end up there sooner or later.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Choices, Forever, Google

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• The hardware business is all about per-unit manufacturing cost and functionality. The services business is less asset-intensive and more dependent on people.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  People, Cost, Assets

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• Google has the functionality of a really complicated Swiss Army knife, but the home page is our of approaching it closed... It's simple, it's elegant you can slip it in your pocket, but it's got the great doodad when you need it

  Marissa Mayer

  Home, Army, Simple

  "The Beauty of Simplicity", www.fastcompany.com. November 1, 2005.

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• Linguistics is a good way of defining the culture of a brand. The vocabulary used by sports and lifestyle brands - running, fitness, training, motorsports - is all about functionality, whereas the vocabulary of the luxury business - handbags, ready-to-wear - is all about the product.

  Francois-Henri Pinault

  Sports, Running, Vocabulary

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• Remember, the web isn't about control. If a visitor to your site is familiar with using a browser's native form doodad, you won't be doing them any favors if you override the browser functionality with your own widget, even if you think your widget looks better.

  Jeremy Keith

  Thinking, Design, Looks

  Jeremy Keith (2010). “HTML5 for Web Designers”

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• Technological advances have always been driven more by a mind-set of 'I can' than 'I should' Technologists love to cram maximum functionality into their products. That's 'I can' thinking, which is driven by peer competition and market forces But this approach ignores the far more important question of how the consumer will actually use the device focus on what we should be doing, not just what we can.

  John Maeda

  Thinking, Focus, Competition

  Manifesto by John Maeda, www.esquire.com. September 18, 2008.

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• Most programs are not write-once. They are reworked and rewritten again and again in their lived. Bugs must be debugged. Changing requirements and the need for increased functionality mean the program itself may be modified on an ongoing basis. During this process, human beings must be able to read and understand the original code. It is therefore more important by far for humans to be able to understand the program than it is for the computer.

  Yukihiro Matsumoto

  Writing, Mean, Important

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• I'm not looking to step in and make 'big, bold changes' - I think reddit is great, and the team has a lot of good features already in the pipeline to improve functionality for users and mods, help with subreddit discovery, improve the API, and help bring reddit to more people.

  Yishan Wong

  Team, Thinking, Discovery

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• Great web design without functionality is like a sports car with no engine.

  Paul Cookson

  Sports, Technology, Car

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• A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Design, Creative, Challenges

  "Women in Design: Diane von Furstenberg". Interview with David Colman, www.elledecor.com. October 18, 2010.

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