Tony Fadell Quotes

I was just taught very early that if I didn't solve problems, I was headed for a very dark path. Problems were everywhere. Now, even if there are no problems, I look for problems. I'm like, 'You know what? I don't like the way this spoon works. I want to design a new spoon.'

I'm an inventor.

So if I want to buy a light in a shop and I don't find a light that I like, I think to myself what would I like? What would I like to buy? Then I started to imagine and design it for myself a lot of the time.

It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too.

I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

Integrating breakthrough technology into everyday products is always a challenge; at the same time, this is exactly how design makes tech products easily adoptable in life.

When I look at other products, I naturally think of ways to improve upon what already exists.

I still don't know how to jump-start a car, even though it's been told to me a million times. But I do love thinking about how creativity works.

Socialcam shares Autodesk's mission of helping everybody imagine, design, and create a better world.

I see myself as a problem solver, creating solutions.

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.

When you're designing and inventing the way I did, every minute of your life is put - every neuron in your brain into trying to think about the little code and how you can maybe have one less line of code and a little bit more straightforward from the beginning to the answer. And you don't have time to think about companies and products and how would I build this. So Steve Jobs and I were a very necessary pair.

Successful people engage that creative part of their minds and ask, "Well, I wonder how else I can look at this problem? I wonder how else I could deal with this decision? I wonder what other possibilities I have there?"

We still seek to solve conflicts with 'judgement' instead of designing the way forwards.

Steve [Jobs'] brilliance is his ability to see something and then understand it and then figure out how to put it into the context of his design methodology - everything is design.

So that is the design process or the creative process. Start with a problem, forget the problem, the problem reveals itself or the solution reveals itself and then you reevaulate it. This is what you are doing all the time.

Design is a thinking process that starts in the head and with sketches. Thinking cannot be done by a computer.

I love working with technology because it allows me to follow my imagination and to invent new things.

All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out.

I think being a producer makes you a problem solver, so you kind of go, "Well there's a problem. What do we do? How do we solve it?"

A good designer can create a design that accommodates all the constraints and still delivers an elegant, satisfying experience to the user. A great designer can go beyond this and create a design that demonstrates that some of those constraints weren’t really there to begin with.

We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.

Technology makes possibilities. Design makes solutions. Art makes questions. Leadership makes actions.