David Pye quotes

“Everything we design and make is an improvisation, a lash-up, something inept and provisional.”
-- David Pye

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“The essential idea is that the quality of the result is continually at risk during the process of making.”
-- David Pye

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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

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“The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow…”

“No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.”

“Humiliation scars deeper than the lash.”

“There's always a certain amount of camera improvisation.”

“I'm very bad with improvisation. I hate it.”

Source : "Christoph Waltz On Set Interview THE GREEN HORNET". Interview with Andre Dellamorte, collider.com. July 13, 2010.

“The shortest feedback loop I can think of is doing improvisation in front of an audience.”

“It ain't about if he knocks a guy out. It's about how he knocks a guy out. It's the style, the improvisation.”

“To work from nature is to improvise.”

“If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation.”

“The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.”

Source : Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.50, Vintage