"Designers should only innovate as a last resort."

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

“Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.”

“Design may be a solution to some industrial problems.”

“My wife is a painter, and a very good one... and we’ve been working together for, oh, twelve years now, I guess...and at first I used to help and criticize things she was doing, and then she would help and criticize things I was doing, and we would... pitch in and do all the jiggering for each other and get it as people do... and then, gradually, things begin to sort of, you know, entropy... things began to get shuffled, and pretty soon you didn’t know, sort of, where one started and the other ended, and anything that we’ve looked at or talked about here, you know, I say that I’m doing it, but actually, she’s doing it just as much as I am, only she sort of goes under the same corporate type name...”

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

“America Meets Charles and Ray Eames on NBC's "Home" show, 1956”