Redesign Quotes

To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Ugliness has been allowed too long. It is time to act.

If it were my decision, I'd knock the Superdome down. If I couldn't knock it down, I'd just open the roof and gut the whole inside - totally modernize it. If you just dust it off and paint a little bit but don't reimage it, the legacy will be horrible.

We fully expect our competitors to join us in embracing open standards with their next redesigns.

It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage introduced through redesign, there is an accompanying unintended disadvantage.

There are a lot of different elements in play when you're remaking something people care about.

We are out to rebuild the world.

There are changes in the works.

Iraq is a terrible place. Some fool American is going to come out here and try to redesign it

You must be very creative in our business. Creating in this business is making something new, but it is also touching on something old.

The hardest thing in the world to do is to take something everyone already knows and make it a little better.

We intend to redesign our entire purchasing system to include a general preference for recycled products.

I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.

Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

We could refresh the look and feel of the entire desktop.

Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.

If we assume the best in people, we can radically redesign our democracy and welfare states.

Everything that's old is new, and everything that's new is old.

You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency.

I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.

They're a redefinition of boredom... the most important thing you need to know about an awards show is where is the nearest smoking opportunity.

A little renovation and reinvention is a positive thing.

There's nothing new under the sun - you just get a can of paint out.

We are operating at an overall mechanical efficiency of only four percent... Therefore, we find that if we increase the overall mechanical efficiency to only twelve percent we can take care of everybody. That three-fold increase in the overall efficiency can only be accomplished by redesign.