If design is to be ecologically responsible, it must be independent of concern for the gross national product.

There are professions more harmful than industrial design but only a few of them

Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don`t need, with money they don`t have, in order to impress others who don`t care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today.

We live in a society that penalizes highly creative individuals for their non-conformist autonomy. This makes the teaching of problem solving in design both discouraging and difficult. A...student (has) massive blocks against new ways of thinking, engendered by some 16 years of mis-education.

Design is a conscious and intuitive effort to impose meaningful order. Design is both the underlying matrix of order and the tool that creates it.

If design is to be ecologically responsible, it must be independent of concern for the gross national product.

The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.