Syd Mead Quotes

#1. Also one of my heroes is Syd Mead, who designed the vehicles for the first Tron, So, there are so many beautiful things happening here. And working with Joe was great. He's an architect, so I worked with other directors in between who were just about the action

Daniel Simon

#2. I've called science fiction 'reality ahead of schedule'

Syd Mead

#3. The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.

Ibrahim Babangida

#4. To be brutally honest, it's simple economics. If they want to come into cycling, sponsors need to know the team they are funding is clean, otherwise the risk is just too great.

David Millar

#5. There are more people in the world who make things than there are people who think of things to make.

Syd Mead

#6. The single biggest problem in design is finding out from the client what it is that they really want.

Syd Mead

#7. I would rather walk every day in the darkness with a God who remains a mystery to me than in the light with a God I completely understand.

Kay Warren

#8. True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

#9. In visual futurism, the line between total fantasy and futuristic is a thread of reality.

Syd Mead

#10. What comes next? Super Mario 128? Actually, that's what I want to do.

Shigeru Miyamoto