Flawed Design Quotes

The detail is as important as the essential is. When it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit.

The government they devised was defective from the start.

A marciful Providunce fashioned us holler O' purpose thet we might our principles swaller.

Obamacare is terminal. It is going to fail under the crushing weight of its own flawed design.

Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.

Bel Air, I am convinced, was laid out by some diabolic sadist who deliberately decided not to use a compass or a surveyor.

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said is that its cosmetic effect is good.

There's no such thing as a foolproof system. That idea fails to take into account the creativity of fools.

I like things that look like mistakes.

A pattern is either right or wrong...it is no stronger than its weakest point.

If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.