Ferdinand Alexander Porsche quotes

“If you analyse the function of an object, its form often becomes obvious.”
-- Ferdinand Alexander Porsche

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“A Porsche will always look like a Porsche. My grandfather took these shapes from nature, so the head lamps of the 911 maybe look a little like the eyes of a frog, but it comes from nature, and the best shapes are from nature, so why change?”
-- Ferdinand Alexander Porsche

Source : "This Porsche is still driven". Interview with John O'Dell, articles.latimes.com. November 6, 2002.

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“A formally harmonious product needs no decoration, it should be elevated through pure form,”
-- Ferdinand Alexander Porsche

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“Lists are a form of power.”

“Supply and demand regulate architectural form.”

“You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.”

“I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.”

“Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won't be able to function properly.”

“I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.”

“It is the function of women to teach men how to be human.”

Source : Ashley Montagu (1999). “The Natural Superiority of Women”, p.232, Rowman Altamira

“Hope is a function of struggle.”

“It's not the meaning of life we seek but our aliveness. Once we have that, the meaning of life is obvious.”

“If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.”

Source : "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by B. W. Powe, 2006.