Cameron Sinclair Quotes

The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams.

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

Socialcam shares Autodesk's mission of helping everybody imagine, design, and create a better world.

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

At its very heart, Worldchanging is about using the best of people's new ideas, bringing them together and applying them to the massive problems that we all face.

Studying engineering was natural for me; I was always interested in technology and building things.

It's really fun and challenging to build things that have never been built before.

I liked the challenge of designing and building things, figuring out how something works and how to make it better or apply it in a different way.

I often get asked if I think I'm ever going to build something useful, and maybe someday I will.

If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.

Give ordinary people the right tools, and they will design and build the most extraordinary things.

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

Nothing in the world can be more exciting than to create something and see it work.

I like building.

The best way to figure out how something works is to try to build it from scratch.

Innovators are developing the ideas and bringing them to life in amazing new applications. All we, as an industry, need to do now is focus on standardizing the interfaces to ensure interoperability - and stand out of the way.

The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

We refuse to recognize problems of form, but only problems of building. Form is not the aim of our work, but only the result. Form, by itself, does not exist. Form as an aim is formalism; and that we reject.

Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that toolbox, and we now have the ability to use it.

I really want to be part of things from the ground up wherever possible. Not to say that I'm not open to being a gun for hire - I am, absolutely - but I really enjoy developing.

I'm very optimistic about the future. I'm just not optimistic about the skyscraper as a building typology that is suited for the future.

As the editor-in-chief of the do-it-yourself magazine 'Make,' I've met scores of dedicated makers. They come from all walks of life - rich, poor, young, old, male, female, religious, atheist, liberal, conservative.

It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.