"My wife is a painter, and a very good one... and we’ve been working together for, oh, twelve years now, I guess...and…"

"I have never been forced to accept compromises but I have willingly accepted constraints."

"Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects... the quality of the connections is the key to quality per se."

"The details are not the details. These make the design."

"One could describe Design as a plan for arranging elements to accomplish a particular purpose."

"[Design is] an expression of purpose. It may, if it is good enough, later be judged as art."

"Design may be a solution to some industrial problems."

"Q: Does the creation of Design admit constraint? Design depends largely on constraints. Q: What constraints? The sum …"

"Designers should only innovate as a last resort."

"There are many good and helpful books worth careful reading—among which may be mentioned: 's How to Lay out a Garden,…"