Niels Diffrient famous quotes

The less there is of a phone, the more I like it.
-- Niels Diffrient

#Phones

The best way to know what people want is not by asking them, but by understanding them,
-- Niels Diffrient

#People #Understanding #Asking

My ideal office wouldn't have a chair. You would do two things there: stand up or lie down. These are the body's most natural positions.
-- Niels Diffrient

#Lying #Two #Office

Why would you design something if it didn't improve the human condition?
-- Niels Diffrient

#Design #Human Condition #Humans

When design springs from an understanding of the people who are going to use a product, you begin to see forms that you would never have imagined.
-- Niels Diffrient

#Spring #People #Design

Today the telephone takes precedence over everything. It reaches a point of terrorism, particularly at dinnertime.
-- Niels Diffrient

#Telephones #Today #Terrorism

It looks like a galosh with electronics in it.
-- Niels Diffrient

#Looks #Electronics

My phone is always in front of me, 24/7.

The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most peoples cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home, you feel impacted by not having it. Its an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.

I visualize myself winning the Olympic Pentathlon, inventing a phone that can be controlled by brain waves, or doing the laundry. I do not actually DO these things, but I see myself doing them, and that is almost MORE satisfying, because I am also lying down.

When one is undone—sprawled across the cold tile of a public bathroom in a pool of one’s own vomit, or shivering in the back of a taxi in a pair of urine-soaked skinny jeans with no money for cab fare and a dead cell phone battery—much like a wobbly toddler or an unhinged politician, one immediately looks for someone else to blame. God. Your parents. Ex-girlfriends. Undocumented immigrants. Marvin in Human Resources. China.

Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user's phone number and home address, anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user's date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.

In a time where the world is becoming personalized, when the mobile phone, the burger, everything has its own personal identity, how should we perceive ourselves and how should we perceive others?

I worked for [Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame inductee] Tommy Hunter. It was a wonderful training program at the CBC, because they made sure they never paid you very much, so you had to do a lot of things, and that way you made some money. [A phone rings.] That's my agent right now telling me I've got a 13 cent residual from Tommy Hunter in 1969.

DJing for people is fun until someone comes up with a phone screen that has 'PLAY SOME RIHANNA' written on it. I prefer to play older songs because they're the ones I personally enjoy dancing and singing along to and modern dance music bores my brains out.

I used to sleep with the phone right by my pillow but I'm getting better. Now it sits on the table a few feet away.

I think most people in the developed world would admit to carrying some sort of handheld device, whether it's a laptop or a cell phone, at all times.