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.

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.

Good design is not an applied veneer.

Never leave well enough alone.

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

It's a simple exercise; a little logic, a little taste, and the will to cooperate.