Paola Antonelli Quotes

#1. Educating the masses was intended only to improve the relationship between the top and the bottom of society. Not for changing the nature of the relationship.

John Ralston Saul

#2. I live to suceed, not to please you or anyone else.

Marilyn Monroe

#3. Be yourself, be in the moment, you're going to be modern

Paola Antonelli

#4. Beauty and elegance are a right, not a surplus ... We must demand, at least, intention.

Paola Antonelli

#5. I want people to understand that design is so much more than cute chairs - that it is first and foremost everything that is around us in our life.

Paola Antonelli

#6. Ugly design should be rejected, just like nonfunctional design is rejected, just like nonenvironmentally conscious design should be rejected. It's a value.

Paola Antonelli

#7. It screamed downward, splitting air and sky without effort. A target expanded in size, brought into focus by time and velocity. There was a moment before impact that was the last instant of things as they were. Then the visible world exploded.

Steven Galloway

#8. Not all design is for the general good.

Paola Antonelli

#9. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn't know it was missing. - PAOLA ANTONELLI, curator of architecture and design, Museum of Modern Art

Daniel H. Pink

#10. While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must be.

Paola Antonelli

#11. I would prefer to tell a young player what to do than how to do it.

Greg Chappell

#12. Designers need to be mavericks, because the best way to design a successful object is to pretend that either it never existed or that people will be able to have a new behavior with it.

Paola Antonelli

#13. Designers stand between revolutions and everyday life. They're able to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and society and convert those changes into objects and ideas that people can understand.

Paola Antonelli

#14. I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.'
- Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronte

#15. Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.

George Bernard Shaw

#16. Tap, hold, and release on any word to look it up. Users are presented with a tool bar of available actions for their selection. Each button in the tool bar has variable width except for the search

Anonymous

#17. Man loves pleasure. But women desire purposeful commitment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. My dad read the Bible ten times, and I want to do it in my lifetime. But it's definitely tough getting through.

Pamela Anderson

#19. Fate determines a man's beginning. The man, by choice, determines his end.

Ogwo David Emenike

#20. The idea of being able to build things bottom up, atom by atom, has made [scientists] all into tinkerers. And all of a sudden scientists are seeking designers, just like designers are seeking scientists.

Paola Antonelli

#21. Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.

Paola Antonelli

#22. Life is tough; thank God there's design.

Paola Antonelli

#23. The connection between religious faith and mental disorder is, from the viewpoint of the tolerant and the "multicultural," both very obvious and highly unmentionable.

Christopher Hitchens

#24. We live today not in the digital, not in the physical, but in the kind of minestrone that our mind makes of the two.

Paola Antonelli

#25. I consider video games a form of design that is amazingly important today and that is going to become even more important in the future, because it is a way we interact with machines and screens.

Paola Antonelli

#26. Intellectualism' is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the duty of ascertaining its contents; but has no power of re-determining its character, for that is already given.

William James

#27. The work doesn't begin until you get tired!

Shaun Thompson

#28. Elegance in objects is everybody's right, and it shouldn't cost more than ugliness.

Paola Antonelli

#29. Heaven is satisfied curiosity.

Paola Antonelli

#30. Small objects, like the Walkman first and then the iPod, create bubbles of space around us that enable us to have a metaphysical space that is much bigger than our physical space.

Paola Antonelli

#31. There are high places that don't invite us, sharp shapes, glacier-scraped faces, whole ranges whose given names slip off. Any such relation as we try to make refuses to take ... I'm giddy with thinking where thinking can't stick.
No Names

Kay Ryan

#32. Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

Alexandre Dumas