Emil Ruder famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty.
-- Emil Ruder

#Writing #Design #Information
Today we are inundated with such an immense flood of printed matter that the value of individual work has depreciated, for our harassed contemporaries simply cannot take everything that is printed today. It is the typographer's task to divide up and organize and interpret this mass of printed matter in such a way that the reader will have a good chance of finding what is of interest to him.
-- Emil Ruder

#Matter #Today #Way
To design is to plan, to order, to relate, and to control. In short, it opposes all means of disorder and accident.
-- Emil Ruder

#Mean #Order #Design
They should make new ways to better design buildings and books. The computer was the end of Swiss typography!
-- Emil Ruder

#Book #Design #Way
They work now with computers for building buildings and books, but not ever with new ideas.
-- Emil Ruder

#Book #Ideas #Computer
A printed work, which cannot be read, becomes a product without purpose.
-- Emil Ruder

#Purpose #Printed

If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.
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.
Delete, delete, delete and at the end find the â€˜core aspect of the designâ€™
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.
The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flowâ€¦
I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.
I don't show just anyone how to crust a sea bass. That's sacred information.
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century.

Emil Ruder famous quotes

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