David Pye famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Everything we design and make is an improvisation, a lash-up, something inept and provisional.
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The essential idea is that the quality of the result is continually at risk during the process of making.
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Function is a fantasy...the form of designed things is decided by choice or else by chance; but it is never actually entailed by anything whatever.
-- David Pye
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The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow…
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No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.
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Humiliation scars deeper than the lash.
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There's always a certain amount of camera improvisation.
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I'm very bad with improvisation. I hate it.
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The shortest feedback loop I can think of is doing improvisation in front of an audience.
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It ain't about if he knocks a guy out. It's about how he knocks a guy out. It's the style, the improvisation.
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To work from nature is to improvise.
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If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation.
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The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.
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