Bill Moggridge famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Few people think about this or are aware of it. But there is nothing made by human beings that does not involve a design decision somewhere.
-- Bill Moggridge

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I donâ€™t think that anyone has really told (people) what design is. It doesnâ€™t occur to most people that everything is designed--that every building and everything they touch in the world is designed. Even foods are designed now. So in the process of helping people understand this, making them more aware of the fact that the world around us is something that somebody has control of, perhaps they can feel some sense of control, too. I think thatâ€™s a nice ambition.
-- Bill Moggridge

#Nice #Ambition #Thinking
If there's a simple, easy design principle that binds everything together, it's probably about starting with the people.
-- Bill Moggridge

#Simple #People #Design
The only way to experience an experience is to experience it
-- Bill Moggridge

#Way
If there is a simple, easy principle that binds everything I have done together, it is my interest in people and their relationship to things.
-- Bill Moggridge

#Simple #People #Together
I like the concept of wearing in instead of wearing out.
-- Bill Moggridge
I don’t think that anyone has really told (people) what design is. It doesn’t occur to most people that everything is designed--that every building and everything they touch in the world is designed. Even foods are designed now. So in the process of helping people understand this, making them more aware of the fact that the world around us is something that somebody has control of, perhaps they can feel some sense of control, too. I think that’s a nice ambition.
-- Bill Moggridge

#Nice #Ambition #Thinking

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isnâ€™t wishful thinking. Itâ€™s the rule.
Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.
Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
Most of society's decision making for young people happens without young people, and that could not happen without adultcentrism.
Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.
You have to make sure that your assets and your back is protected before you make any big decisions.

Bill Moggridge famous quotes

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