Alec Issigonis famous quotes

03-28-2025

The public don't know what they want; it's my job to tell them.
-- Alec Issigonis

#Jobs #Design #Want
I feel very, very proud that so many people have copied me
-- Alec Issigonis

#People #Proud #Feels
An expert is someone who tells you why you can't do something.
-- Alec Issigonis

#Design #Experts
A camel is a horse designed by committee.
-- Alec Issigonis

#Horse #Design #Camels
It is much easier to drive without having an accident.
-- Alec Issigonis

#Easier #Accidents
My doodles and sketches are not the work of an academic engineer. They represent many years of design study in attempts to produce the best value for money in the field of small car design.
-- Alec Issigonis

#Years #Drawing #Car
A camel looks like a horse that was planned by a committee.
-- Alec Issigonis

#Horse #Camels #Looks
I've always felt that stylists such as you have in America are ashamed of a car and are preoccupied with making it look like something else, like a submarine or an airship...As an engineer, I revolt against this.
-- Alec Issigonis

#America #Car #Looks

A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses.
The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.
Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.
Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.
Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design: We may imagine Chance and Design to be, as it were, in Competition with each other, for the production of some sorts of Events, and many calculate what Probability there is, that those Events should be rather be owing to the one than to the other.
Because it is a national landmark, there is only one way to judge the Kennedy Center - against the established standard of progressive and innovative excellence in architectural design that this country is known and admired for internationally. Unfortunately, the Kennedy Center not only does not achieve this standard of innovative excellence; it also did not seek it. The architect opted for something ambiguously called 'timelessness' and produced meaninglessness. It is to the Washington manner born. Too bad, since there is so much of it.
No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.
God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
My parents just tell me, â€˜If you know what you want, you should stay determined and go for it. You can do anything.â€™
Our society covers these problems with a veil. All I want is an open discussion

Alec Issigonis famous quotes

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