Linus Torvalds Quotes

Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.

Good design should be honest.

Good design is long-lasting! It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated.

Good design is good business.

You cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people.

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate.

Design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort so you can get on with the things that matter.

I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.

Good design doesn't date. Bad design does.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

Good design doesn't date.

Accessible design is good design.

Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

I fervently believe in research as a necessity for good design, and I teach it that way.

All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations.

Good design is good business.

Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

Good design is good business.

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

Good design is thorough, down to the last detail.

Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to keep things simple.

Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple

Good design makes a product understandable.