Stephen Fry Quotes

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

We always correct people who say, 'You're trying to make this look better.' Well yes, we want it to look better, but that's easy. The look and the function are one and the same. They are not separate. It looks good because it functions beautifully. That message is very hard.

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

For me, how an appliance looks is as important as how efficiently it works.

C'est véritablement utile puisque c'est joli. It is truly useful since it is beautiful.

Design is everything.

Design means being good, not just looking good.

Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

It's useful because it's beautiful.

Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.

Analog is more beautiful than digital, really, but we go for comfort.

I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.

Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will outsell the other.

Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design.

'Form follows function' comes with so much baggage. It's a worthless phrase because you'll never take it for what it means.

Good design should be honest.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

Function alone does not make clothing appealing.

Deep in the culture of Apple is this sense and understanding of design, developing, and making. Form and the material and process - they are beautifully intertwined - completely connected.

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

I would say most of my style is driven by functionality and comfort.

Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important.

Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use.

Beauty is all about form; proportions and the relationships between one line and another.