Charles Eames quotes:

Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.

To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.

Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.

It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.

The details are not the details. They make the design.

Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.

It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next.

The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?

The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life.

Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?

Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.