Issey Miyake Quotes

You have a physical human reaction to something that another human being made. When you remove the human from it, and you chop it up, make it all perfect, you have a different reaction. Something is not there. You can feel it when it's there.

The digital world has power because it has dynamic information, but it's important that we stay human instead of being another machine sitting in front of a machine.

I'm old fashioned with my cell phone. I like that human contact and I think it's important.

Pixar is not about computers, it's about people.

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.

In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.

Daily life is better when it involves interactions with real people who have a personal investment in their labour, like shopkeepers, than it is with someone 'just doing my job' or the infernal self-checkout machine.

Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

I love using the latest technologies to make life more efficient, but I don't want to advocate that technology replaces the need to get together and enjoy human connections with people.

Computers and smart devices are among the greatest intellectual gifts ever created for man but, if not balanced with human contact, may offer little to develop one's heart.

Ultimately, we're in the service business. We will always have an important human element.

It's the human approach to customers that I want to bring back.

I am definitely a person who firmly believes in the human touch and in the importance of people.

As the world becomes a more digital place, we cannot forget about the human connection.

People thrive on genuine connections - not with machines, but with each other. You don't want a robot taking care of your baby; an ailing elder needs to be loved, to be listened to, fed, and sung to. This is one job category that people are - and will continue to be - best at.

Sometimes you need these warm, human moments - something that feels close - to help things along.

The human element of making music is what's most important.

That's the thing with handmade items. They still have the person's mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone. This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.

The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork that is not done by a machine--which is to say, its little bit of humanity.

No computer network with pretty graphics can ever replace the salespeople that make our society work.

I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for us. But it will never be a substitute for the face of a man, with his soul in it, encouraging another man to be brave and true.

In spite of our high-tech world and efficient procedures, people remain the essential ingredient of life.

Memorable customer service can only take place in a human-to-human situation.

I only do what I do. For me, it is a craft. It's got to be my own thing - otherwise, I would never be successful. I could easily go to the archives and pull 1987 or 1991 collection by Calvin Klein. But when you look in there, you realize that it was never about one piece. It was about the collections as bodies of work.

We expect more from technology and less from each other.