Richard Driehaus famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • 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.

  • As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.

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

  • Flow systems have two basic features (properties). There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows.

  • Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.

  • Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.

  • So you have to just be really careful and make sure that when a deal comes along, that it's like the right deal for you... not necessarily the most money, because you have to pay the record label that back in like record sales and stuff.

  • But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.

  • In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might