I believe one should design for the advantage of the largest mass of people, first and always. That takes care of ideologies and sociologies. Raymond Loewy
After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America. Russ Carnahan
That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them. Genevieve Gorder
To John Adams he [Samuel] said on one occasion, "he never looked forward in life; never planned, laid a scheme, or formed a design for laying up anything for himself or others after him. This was the truth, inexplicable as it must have seemed to his more provident cousin. Carl L. Becker
Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus. David Hockney
The main tenet of design thinking is empathy for the people you're trying to design for. Leadership is exactly the same thing - building empathy for the people that you're entrusted to help. David M. Kelley