"I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing."
Béla Bartók - Composer
"I believe that finished products and industrial design make people more neighborly. In small things the status symbol disappears."
Arne Jacobsen
"How many things can you do to enhance and how do you avoid those things which do not? If there is a moral commitment - or an opportunity - for a designer, that is it."
George Nelson
"(On Design) Basically it is a matter of making our customers successful."
Hartmut Esslinger
"Design is the art that combines consumer needs with the possiubilities of industrial production."
Olavi Landen
"Music happens to be an art form that transcends language."
Herbie Hancock
"There is hardly anything in the world that some person cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper and people who consider price alone are this person's lawful prey."
John Ruskin
"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."
Plato
"Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further developments."
Julius Sextus Frontinus - Roman Engineer in 10 A.D.
"Everything that can be invented has already been invented."
Charles Duell - Commissioner for the U.S. Patent Office 1899