“In the consumer economy taste is not the criterion in the marketing of expensive soft drinks, usability is not the primary criterion in the marketing of home and office appliances. We are surrounded with objects of desire, not objects of use.” UseHomeDesireEconomyObjectsDrinkTasteOfficeMarketingPrimariesConsumersExpensiveCriteriaAppliancesUsabilityObjects Of DesireSoft Drinks Author:Donald A. Norman
“No one you'd really like to see in public office has the bad taste to run.” RunningTasteOfficeBad TastePublic Office Author:F. Paul Wilson
“Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,--a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is the prudence of simple tastes, when it is practised for freedom or for love or devotion.” HumansSimpleEconomyTasteOfficeAimDevotionSacramentsPrudence Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Let your voice be heard, whether or not it is to the taste of every jack-in-office who may be obstructing the traffic. By all means, render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's - but this does not necessarily include everything that he says is his.” MayMeanDoeVoiceHeardTasteOfficeTraffic Author:Denis Johnston
“A gentleman who for reasons of chivalry I shall not mention, but who occupied grand office, and who had taken grandly of wine and allowed veritas to overcome him, went up to the Prime Minister and told her he had always fancied her, to which the Prime Minister replied, "Quite right - you have very good taste but I just don't think you would make it at the moment.” ThinkingReasonMomentsTakenTasteOfficeOvercomingWineVery GoodMinistersGentlemanPrimePrime MinisterGood TasteChivalryFlirtation Author:Nicholas Fairbairn
“The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That's my view.” IfsMenWritingKindDifferentTermViewsCommonWatchesDisciplineTasteOfficeCriticsBoxesCritiqueCommon ManBox OfficeReviewers Author:Ang Lee
“Its big men are mostly little men with fancy offices and a lot of money. A great many of them are stupid little men, with reach-me-down brains, small-town arrogance and a sort of animal knack of smelling out the taste of the stupidest part of the public. They have played in luck so long that they have come to mistake luck for enlightenment." - on Hollywood” MenLittlesLongBigsAnimalMistakeBrainStupidTasteOfficeEnlightenmentHollywoodTownsLuckArroganceFancyLots Of MoneySmall TownKnackLittle ManStupidest Author:Raymond Chandler