As a boy I had liked both drawing and physics, and I always abhorred the role of being a spectator. In 1908, when I was 15, I designed, built and flew a toy model airplane which won the then-famous James Gordon Bennett Cup. By 16 I had discovered that design could be fun and profitable, and this lesson has never been lost on me.

The most reliable appliance has simplicity and quality, does what is demanded of it, is economical to use, easy to maintain, and just as easy to repair. ...It also sells best and looks good.

It all must start with an inspired, spontaneous idea.

The adult public's taste is not necessarily ready to accept the logical solutions to their requirements if the solution implies too vast a departure from what they have been conditioned into accepting as the norm.

I believe one should design for the advantage of the largest mass of people, first and always. That takes care of ideologies and sociologies.

Good design is not an applied veneer.

There is a frantic race to merchandise tinsel and trash under the guise of 'modernism.'