Kit Williams Quotes

You can almost say that a design error is a human error because, after all, it's we humans who do the designing.

By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.

When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.

To design something really new and innovative you have to reject reason.

When I design a car, I want people to look at it and go, 'Wow, that's kind of interesting,' and do a second take.

A design that I create is like my own extension. It's 'thinking made visible.'

I realized mechanical engineering doesn't much lend itself to missionary work.

My idea for Gucci was crazy, but that's the only idea I had. I was sure I'd be fired after the first show.

I think, as a designer, what you have to do is challenge yourself to do what you do, but better.

Halston was one of the hardest-working designers I have come across. The way he cut, moulded, manipulated and draped fabric was inspiring. I was submerged into the Halston subculture alongside Andy Warhol, Liza Minnelli, Elizabeth Taylor and Truman Capote. They shaped who I have become as a designer.

We have always thought about design as being so much more than just the way something looks. It's the whole thing: the way something works on so many different levels. Ultimately, of course, design defines so much of our experience.

The best kind of design isn't necessarily an object, a space, or a structure: it's a process- dynamic and adaptable.

Design truly is a contact sport. It demands that we bring all of our senses to the task, and that we apply the very best of our thinking, our feeling and our doing to the challenge that we have at hand.

The design industry is really pathetic.

I have a lot to learn from designers.

The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture.

I would not be able to change a sparking plug and I would not be able to fly a spaceship or build a rocket or whatever. But what I am good at doing is finding brilliant people and surrounding myself with brilliant people.

It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

The motors I build there were exactly as I imagined them. I made no attempt to improve the design, but merely reproduced the pictures as they appeared to my vision and the operation was always as I expected.

I am so old, I entered engineering school with a slide rule. And I left engineering school with a calculator. I can still use a slide rule but it's not a skill you especially need anymore.

The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship.

If I have made a mistake in the design, then I'm the one who should pay for it. I certainly would not ask somebody else to fly a plane if I were afraid to do it myself.

Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.

Angry Birds is a very simple idea but its one of those games that I immediately appreciated when I first started playing, before wishing that I had been the one to come up with the idea first.

The Difference Engine can in reality (as has been already partly explained) do nothing but add; and any other processes, not excepting those of simple subtraction, multiplication and division, can be performed by it only just to that extent in which it is possible, by judicious mathematical arrangement and artifices, to reduce them to a series of additions.