“Everything we design and make is an improvisation, a lash-up, something inept and provisional.” DesignImprovisationLashes Author:David Pye
“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.” FormChoicesChanceFantasyDecidedFunction Author:David Pye
“The essential idea is that the quality of the result is continually at risk during the process of making.” IdeasProcessResultsQualityRiskEssentials Author:David Pye