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My goal is to omit everything superfluous so that the essential is shown to best possible advantage. — Dieter Rams

Good design means as little design as possible. — Dieter Rams

Not the spectacular things are the important things - the unspectacular things are the important things, especially in the future. — Dieter Rams

Words are forces of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

All too much of the man-made is ugly, inefficient, depressing chaos. — Dieter Rams

Good design is long-lasting! It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated ... — Dieter Rams

People react positively when things are clear and understandable. — Dieter Rams

The design should make the product speak to you. — Dieter Rams

I don't like computers. I still like to do my drawings by hand. — Dieter Rams

Less, but better. — Dieter Rams

Things which are different in order simply to be different are seldom better, but that which is made to be better is almost always different. — Dieter Rams

Good design is honest. — Dieter Rams

There is no better game in the world when you are in good company, and no worse game when you are in bad company. — Tommy Bolt

You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it. — Cornel West

Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role. — Dieter Rams

I believe designers should eliminate the unnecessary. That means eliminating everything that is modish because this kind of thing is only short-lived. — Dieter Rams

Indifference towards people and the reality in which they live is actually the one and only cardinal sin in design — Dieter Rams

Products have to be designed in a way that they are comprehensible. — Dieter Rams

I hate everything that is driven by fashion. — Dieter Rams

As designers, we have a great responsibility. — Dieter Rams

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful. — Dieter Rams

I'm a technologist by origin and by training, but I'm focused on philanthropy. — Pierre Omidyar

Never regret what you do, only what you don't do — Chloe T. Barlow

Question everything generally thought to be obvious. — Dieter Rams

I like to be in New York. Le Corbusier described it in the 1930s as a 'wonderful catastrophe.' It is still a wonderful catastrophe, but inspiring. — Dieter Rams

One of the most significant design principles is to omit the unimportant in order to emphasize the important. — Dieter Rams

Good design is thorough, down to the last detail. — Dieter Rams

Good design makes a product understandable. — Dieter Rams

We designers, we don't work in a vacuum. We need business people. We are not the fine artists we are often confused with. — Dieter Rams

Quiet is better than loud. — Dieter Rams

You cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people. — Dieter Rams

There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades. — Dieter Rams

I sit, I think, I make some drawings. As a designer, you cannot retire totally. — Dieter Rams

Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour. — Dieter Rams