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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.”

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David Pye

David Pye was a renowned furniture designer known for his unique design style and respect for traditional craftsmanship. His works combined modern and traditional elements, emphasizing the value of handcrafted production. more

“These days, information is a commodity being sold. And designers-including the newly defined subset of information designers and information architects-have a responsible role to play. We are interpreters, not merely translators, between sender and receiver. What we say and how we say it makes a difference. If we want to speak to people, we need to know their language. In order to design for understanding, we need to understand design.”

“The machine technology takes no cognizance of conventionally established rules of precedence; it knows neither manners nor breeding and can make no use of any of the attributes of worth.”

Knows Use Technology Machines Manners Attributes Breeding Precedence

Book:The Theory of Business Enterprise

Source: The Theory of Business Enterprise

“Science, as well as technology, will in the near and in the farther future increasingly turn from problems of intensity, substance, and energy, to problems of structure, organization, information, and control.”

Wells Problem Turns Energy Technology Information Organization Structure Substance Intensity

Author:John von Neumann

“Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.”

Real Lying Imagination Criticism Innovation

Author:Oscar Wilde

“Information anxiety is the black hole between data and knowledge, and it happens when information doesn't tell us what we want or need to know.”

Knows Want Needs Happens Black Information Anxiety Holes Data Black Hole

Author:Richard Saul Wurman

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