Quotes by William McDonough

William McDonough

And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water, makes complex sugars and foods, changes colors with the seasons, and self-replicates. and then why don’t we knock that down and write on it?

Food

Nature

Writing

Design is inherently optimistic. That is its power.

Design

Optimistic

Don’t get me wrong: I love nuclear energy! It’s just that I prefer fusion to fission. And it just so happens that there’s an enormous fusion reactor safely banked a few million miles from us. It delivers more than we could ever use in just about 8 minutes. And it’s wireless!

Environmental

Fun

Fusion

Honor commerce as the engine of change.

Change

Commerce

Honor

I am working right at both the levels- with the most wealthy clients in the world, but also the poorest. I spend half my time designing for people that have nothing.

Design

Half

People

I can’t imagine something being beautiful at this point in history if it’s destroying the planet or causing children to get sick. How can anything be beautiful if it’s not ecologically intelligent at this point?

Beautiful

Children

Intelligent

I just think it is so delightful to see people, let their elbows free. I think the exuberance of it all is really exciting to me. It’s a signal of the abundance of diversity and creative expression.

Diversity

Expression

Thinking

I think as designers we realize design is a signal of intention, but it also has to occur within a world and we have to understand that world in order to imbue our designs with inherent intelligence.

Design

Order

Thinking

I’d rather have that dialogue right now than only the other one, which is starting at such a basic level, that we start rearranging stuff on the Titanic, trying to be less bad with ordinary stuff.

Levels

Ordinary

Trying

If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage.

Humility

Inspiration

Motivation

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Beautiful

Blow

Business

Change

Chess Pieces

Children

Climate

Climate Change

Commerce

Community

Design

Different

Discovery

Diversity

Doe

Dry Up

Earth

Effectiveness

Ends

Energy

Environmental

Ethos

Expression

Fall

Firsts

Food

Forever

Fun

Fusion

Games

Green

Half

Home

Honor

Humility

Ideas

Inspiration

Intelligent

Intention

Invention

Issues

Jars

Levels

Mean

Mind

Moon

Motivation

Moving

Nature

Nice

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Quotes by William McDonough

William McDonough

Design is inherently optimistic. That is its power.

Don’t get me wrong: I love nuclear energy! It’s just that I prefer fusion to fission. And it just so happens that there’s an enormous fusion reactor safely banked a few million miles from us. It delivers more than we could ever use in just about 8 minutes. And it’s wireless!

Honor commerce as the engine of change.

I am working right at both the levels- with the most wealthy clients in the world, but also the poorest. I spend half my time designing for people that have nothing.

I can’t imagine something being beautiful at this point in history if it’s destroying the planet or causing children to get sick. How can anything be beautiful if it’s not ecologically intelligent at this point?

I just think it is so delightful to see people, let their elbows free. I think the exuberance of it all is really exciting to me. It’s a signal of the abundance of diversity and creative expression.

I think as designers we realize design is a signal of intention, but it also has to occur within a world and we have to understand that world in order to imbue our designs with inherent intelligence.

I’d rather have that dialogue right now than only the other one, which is starting at such a basic level, that we start rearranging stuff on the Titanic, trying to be less bad with ordinary stuff.

If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage.

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