Esslinger Quotes

#1. Tears are our first language and our last.

Marty Rubin

#2. I haven't even thought about a world record. I just want to go out there and have fun. I think when you focus too much on the numbers, you don't see anything that's out there.

Missy Franklin

#3. I'm trying to figure out if I love art enough to be poor.

Marina Keegan

#4. I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project.

Andy Hertzfeld

#5. Increasingly, corporations will look to advertising agencies for direction. Without an understanding of brand creation, messaging, and strategy, today's designers are destined to become the haidressers of tomorrow's creative environments-great for styling but light on strategy.

Hartmut Esslinger

#6. Today is what's thought about long ago. Now today we have to project, think, experiment, prototype the future.

Hartmut Esslinger

#7. I have the outsider's vision, which is creating wisdom I can share with the world. The fact that I am misunderstood has always given me an added impetus to work on communication to bridge the gap.

Yoko Ono

#8. Good design should reflect a sense of human history-some aspect of where we've come from.

Hartmut Esslinger

#9. Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.

John Locke

#10. In Europe you learn not to fail, and in America you fail to learn. You need failure.

Hartmut Esslinger

#11. ONCE a beloved asked her lover: "Friend,
You have seen many places in the world!
Now - which of all these cities was the best?
He said: "The city where my sweetheart lives!

Rumi

#12. The people in business must understand what they can achieve with designers. Designers have to understand that they really must deliver to business not just beautification, or another form of it, but substantial change.

Hartmut Esslinger