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. – Charles Eames
Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose. – Charles Eames
Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world. – Charles Eames
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route. – Charles Eames
Most of Roosevelts innovations have been the law of the land for 70 years now, and yet we are still a free society free enough, that is, to allow tens of thousands of protesters to gather on the National Mall and to broadcast their slogans and speeches to the world via C-SPAN. – Thomas Frank