Zaha Hadid Quotes

Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.

You can use cheap technology to get a great look.

It's important to offer well-thought-out pieces at lower prices.

The tubular steel chair is surely rational from technical and constructive points of view. It is light, suitable for mass production, and so on. But steel and chromium surfaces are not satisfactory from the human point of view.

People feel vulnerable when they travel. Nobody wants to be taken advantage of or talked into something they don't want. Staying at Motel 6 makes you feel smarter. In fact, I think it actually means you are smarter, but I have no hard data to support that.

Supply and demand regulate architectural form.

You want to live a life in which the things you have traded your hard-earned money for are quality items that really do uplift your life.

After I joined Toyota, there was a period when I drove more than 200 cars in one year - different types, other companies' cars. I want to be able to tell what distinguishes one car from the next.

You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.

You don't have to pay more to have a great form.

I think the Smart Car is awesome. The only problem is I've been on the freeway and felt like I was going to be blown away like a Tim Hortons coffee cup, so I may have to upgrade to a Mini Cooper - something a little stronger.

I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.

When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the needed solidity.

The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

Whereas in the Fall of 1980 the frame of the new Senate Office Building was covered with plastic sheathing in order that construction might continue during the winter months; and Whereas the plastic cover has now been removed revealing, as feared, a building whose banality is exceeded only by its expense; and Whereas, even in a democracy there are things that it is as well the people do not know about their government; Therefore, be it resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that the plastic cover be put back.

Builders may receive due encouragement by having materials for building at reasonable prices.

He is like a good prewar house solidly built. They don't build them that way anymore. He's also been repainted several times.

Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.

When people are deprived of a sense, their other senses get heightened. If you're culturally devoid of something - of weather, of artistry, of interesting architecture, all the way down the line to culture itself - you're either forced to give in and get that car dealership, or you manufacture those things for yourself.

I try to make pieces that are durable. One of the reasons that I work in steel is durability.

Some of the best things in life cost just $2.

The pre-owned market allows us to reach customers who really want an Apple device but can't really reach that point. I think it is great for people, or otherwise, we wouldn't we doing it. If we were not proud of the product, we wouldn't be doing it.

The V50 is a genuinely great car, even as a diesel.

People say, 'You're old.' Old ain't nothing. You've got new cars that break down and old cars that pass them.