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.

I can claim to have made the daily life of the 20th Century more beautiful.

If America wants to make "made in America" a symbol of excellence and worth. They have to make everything of high quality, otherwise the best.

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

Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It goes deeper than its visual manifestations, it affects moral matters; we are engaged, as astrophysicists would say, on a decaying orbit.

Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

Form, which should be the clean - cut expression of mechanical excellence has become sensuous and organic.