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

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.

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

Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order

Design must be an innovative, highly creative, cross-disciplinary tool responsive to the needs of men. It must be more research-oriented, and we must stop defiling the earth itself with poorly-designed objects and structures.

Design is the patterning and planning of any act toward a desired, foreseeable end... any attempt to separate design, to make it a thing-by-itself works, counter to the fact that design is the primary underlying matrix of life.

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