20th-century Designer Quotes

I only included things that everybody likes, like violence, flowers, children, women, friendship and death.

Tomonobu Itagaki

Writing is a process of discovery of what you really do know. You can't limit yourself in advance to what you know, because you don't know everything you know.

I would have preferred to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work - for example, a lawn-mower.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

I like to dress egos. If you haven't got an ego today, you can forget it.

All creative people hate mathematics. It's the most uncreative subject you can study.

The advantage of being female is that once you're past 65, you can be a dowager empress. After the difficult part in the middle, you're allowed to be eccentric.

The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

A game is a problem-solving activity, approached with a playful attitude

Making money from money should be replaced with making money from making.

Fun from games arises out of mastery. It arises out of comprehension. It is the act of solving puzzles that makes games fun. In other words, with games, learning is the drug.

If you want to make the best of yourself you don't necessarily need to diet — you need to wear the right stuff.