David Pye Quotes

• The essential idea is that the quality of the result is continually at risk during the process of making.

  David Pye

  Ideas, Risk, Quality

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• Everything we design and make is an improvisation, a lash-up, something inept and provisional.

  David Pye

  Design, Lashes, Improvisation

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• Function is a fantasy...the form of designed things is decided by choice or else by chance; but it is never actually entailed by anything whatever.

  David Pye

  Choices, Chance, Fantasy

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