Flawed Design Quotes

The detail is as important as the essential is. When it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit.

The government they devised was defective from the start.

A marciful Providunce fashioned us holler O' purpose thet we might our principles swaller.

Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.

Obamacare is terminal. It is going to fail under the crushing weight of its own flawed design.

Bel Air, I am convinced, was laid out by some diabolic sadist who deliberately decided not to use a compass or a surveyor.

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said is that its cosmetic effect is good.

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

There's no such thing as a foolproof system. That idea fails to take into account the creativity of fools.

I like things that look like mistakes.

A pattern is either right or wrong...it is no stronger than its weakest point.

If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.