Carl Magnusson famous quotes

Good design is not about form following function. It is function with cultural content. By adding "cultural content" to the concept of "form follows function," objects cease to be finite or predictable. Maybe the right way to interpret the dictum is to first acknowledge that the function needs to be clearly understood before the form is considered.
-- Carl Magnusson

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Everything that I do has a certain mechanical logic to it, and follows my definition of design--which is function with cultural content.
-- Carl Magnusson

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A grain of devotion is more valuable thank tons of faithlessness.

I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.

Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite

…words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which she must spin out--the silk is her life, her home, her safety--her food and drink too--and if it is attacked or pulled down, why, what can she do but make more, spin afresh, design anew….

Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.

The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow…

No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.

War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.

She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. You choose a career and other careers are lost to you. You choose a mate and commit to loving no other.