Robin Day Quotes

Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.

People appreciate a good product, a stable system. They want to communicate easily and use a product that just works.

I think a beautiful product that doesn't work very well is ugly.

I'm serviceable. I'm durable. I get the job done.

A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work.

The most reliable appliance has simplicity and quality, does what is demanded of it, is economical to use, easy to maintain, and just as easy to repair. ...It also sells best and looks good.

I just think things should work properly.

In principle, if you understood the mechanisms of keeping things repaired, you could keep things going indefinitely.

Either it works or it doesn't.

You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it.

If something is easy to repair, it is easy to construct.

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

Puma was all about function and not at all about design. The founder of the company always believed functionality and performance were the only ingredients that could make Puma successful and design never mattered.

Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done.

Linux has never been about quality. There are so many parts of the system that are just these cheap little hacks, and it happens to run.

I'd rather have a house that's nice but usable.

I think what really people want is just a few things done really, really well. And if you think about ever day of your life, the things you really appreciate aren't the complicated things. They're the simple things that work just the way you expect them to.

Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.

I'm the opposite of a gearhead. I like simplicity. I use what works, and the only time I change it is when I have to.

You don't need to change something if it is working.

I need to be able to depend on the products I use to stand up to the demands I put on my vehicles.

No one will use the new Internet if it's slow, costs money and doesn't scale.

People care about performance and results above all else.

The products people like best start with function and wind up with look.

It's about consistency.