Ron Pompei famous quotes

I wouldn't call it a retail store. It's a place where culture and commerce intersect. It's more like the Silk Road-a sense of exploration mixed with the exchange of things and ideas.
-- Ron Pompei

#Ideas #Design #Retail

The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.

Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.

A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective.

My idea of the perfect bottom would be nice, bubbly, curvy, firm, maybe a little bit bouncy.

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.

If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page... When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful.

The future of retail is the integration of Internet and digital services with the retail network.

Retail should never ever tell the copyright owner how their stuff is sold.

Basically we get confused a bit about what retail is. It is really just buying things, putting them on a floor and selling them.