David Pye Quotes

#1. I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building.

Edward Snowden

#2. Twitter is a great place to tell the world what you're thinking before you've had a chance to think about it.

Chris Pirillo

#3. Function is a fantasy ... the form of designed things is decided by choice or else by chance; but it is never actually entailed by anything whatever.

David Pye

#4. Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as worthy of preserving as a sixteenth-century building.

Carlo Petrini

#5. My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I've had. And now that I'm in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won't be half as much anger as there was.

Kurt Cobain

#6. I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.

Ernest Hemingway,

#7. Personally I think that competition should be encouraged in war and sport and business, but that it makes no sense in the arts. If an artist is good, nobody else can do what he or she does and therefore all comparisons are incoherent.

Edward St. Aubyn

#8. I think what we do best, in the artistic world, are the things where we're handicapped.

Charlotte Rampling

#9. Everything we design and make is an improvisation, a lash-up, something inept and provisional.

David Pye

#10. I have nothing against Bosniaks/Islam, but it is the desire to direct political processes that is completely unacceptable.

Milorad Dodik

#11. If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God's work only may express that, but ours may never have that sentence written upon it, Behold it was very good.

John Ruskin

#12. Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.

Natalie MacMaster

#13. Have you tried this treatment for female baldness? I hear it's life-changing.

Laini Taylor

#14. Jamie, have you ever done something for yourself alone - not with any thought of anyone else?

Diana Gabaldon

#15. A person can have a happy and fulfilling life without children.

Judy Blume

#16. I like a certain grandeur to a landscape, which both the Arctic and coastal BC have. I like it to be at all times clear that people aren't the dominant fact of a particular geography.

Kevin Patterson

#17. In Eckankar, we teach Soul Travel. This is one of the aspects of the teachings of the Holy Spirit. Soul Travel simply means the ability to travel as Soul.

Harold Klemp

#18. The essential idea is that the quality of the result is continually at risk during the process of making.

David Pye