Yves Behar Quotes

The most important thing about technology is that it can seamlessly work its way into your routine and your life.

Technology has to be invisible. Transparent. Just simple.

Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.

Technology's related to everything. Technology is making the world more accessible, so yeah, as generations go by, they'll become more and more married to each other, for sure. I think they go hand in hand - fashion inspires design, and technology inspires design as well.

One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible.

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

Our view is that Quark can make almost everything smart. We'll show you some things that you would never have thought could become smart and communicate.

The Internet of Things tell us that a lot of computer-enabled appliances and devices are going to become part of this system, too: appliances that you use around the house, that you use in your office, that you carry around with yourself or in the car. That's the Internet of Things that's coming.

I've been thinking about 'The Jetsons' since I was a kid. But occasionally, you want 'The Jetsons' to come to reality. That's what Apple is so great at: Productizing things and bringing them to you so you can be a part of it.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.

Because of the Internet of Things, we're all going to be connected.

Good technology is intuitive - the cellphone forces you to become an engineer.

We're in this incredible age where new brands are making people's lives easier, more convenient, more personalized.

We actually believe Windows 8 is the new era for the PC plus. We believe with a single push of a button you can move seamlessly in and out of both worlds. We believe you can have touch, a pen, a mouse, and a keyboard.

I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices.

The pace of digital innovation is astonishing. It's impossible to imagine life without the web, smartphones, social networks. And yet the consumer products and everyday objects all around us are still essentially dumb.

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

I have a lot of gadgets, remote controls for everything - the curtains, pool cover - it's like The Jetsons!

I think there are two aspects to smart environments. One is information embedded in places and things. The other is location awareness, so that devices we carry around know where we are. When you combine those two, you get a lot of possibilities.

Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

Computing is evolving beyond phones, and people are using it in context across many scenarios, be it in their television, be it in their car, be it something they wear on their wrist or even something much more immersive.

We're excited about how tech can be used to get tech out of the way.

My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.

Things that are ultimately complex must have a simple end user experience if they are to be successful.

Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.