Quotes About Swiss Design

#1. Universal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localized design community. A second modernism has emerged, reinvigorating the utopian search for universal forms that marked the birth of design as a discourse and a discipline nearly a century earlier.

Ellen Lupton

#2. Let your youth have free reign. It won't come again, so be bold, and no repenting.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#3. They should make new ways to better design buildings and books. The computer was the end of Swiss typography!

Emil Ruder

#4. If your imaginary friends are at all like mine, they're better off dead.

Susan Spann

#5. In the ring I can tell right away what his style is and I can adapt to it. I'm adjusting to life as a politician. It's different in training but I can stay focused on both.

Manny Pacquiao

#6. Humans are aware of very little, it seems to me, the artificial brainy side of life, the worries and bills and the mechanisms of jobs, the doltish psychologies we've placed over our lives like a stencil. A dog keeps his life simple and unadorned.

Brad Watson

#7. Purpose creates a belief in a higher power, directing you toward your goal on the best path possible.

Lawren Leo

#8. The hardware and the software will come from Silicon Valley. But the watch case, the dial, the design, the idea, the crown, that part of the watch will, of course, be Swiss.

Jean-Claude Biver

#9. American colonies were as much a dumping ground as an escape, a forgetting place.

Neil Gaiman

#10. Now if you'll excuse me, real life is calling and there's no room for self-righteous, delusional little girls. Big boys only.

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#11. Discipline must be without control, without suppression, without any form of fear...It is not discipline first and then freedom; freedom is at the very beginning, not at the end.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#12. Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.

H.L. Mencken