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“Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.”
― Charles Eames

“Eventually everything connects — people, ideas, objects...the quality of the connections is the key to quality per se...I don't believe in this 'gifted few' concept, just in people doing things they are really interested in doing. They have a way of getting good at whatever it is.”
― Charles Eames

“The most important thing is that you love what you are doing, and the second that you are not afraid of where your next idea will lead.”
― Charles Eames

“Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.”
― Charles Eames

“The details are not the details. They make the design.”
― Charles Eames

“Beyond the age of information, there is the age of choices.”
― Charles Eames, A Computer Perspective: Background to the Computer Age, New Edition

“Take your pleasure seriously.”
― Charles Eames

“Who is to say that pleasure is useless?”
― Charles Eames

“Choose Your Corner, Pick Away At It Carefully, Intensely, & To The Best Of Your Ability, & That Way, You Might change The World.”
― Charles Eames

“Genius? Nothing--we just worked harder.”
― Charles Eames, 100 Quotes By Charles Eames

“It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.”
― Charles Eames

“Eventually everything connects.”
― Charles Eames

“Most people aren’t trained to want to face the process of re-understanding a subject they already know. One must obtain not just literacy, but deep involvement and re-understanding.”
― Charles Eames

“Eventually Everything Connects - all the Pain, the Struggle & the People.”
― Charles Eames

“But you can go beyond that and the guys that have not only means, but a certain amount of knowledge and understanding, go the next step and they eat off of a banana leaf. And I think that in these times when we fall back and regroup, that somehow or other, the banana leaf parable sort of got to get working there, because I'm not prepared to say that the banana leaf that one eats off of is the same as the other eats off of, but it's that process that has happened within the man that changes the banana leaf. And as we attack these problems—and I hope and I expect that the total amount of energy used in this world is going to go from high to medium to a little bit lower—the banana leaf idea might have a great part in it.”
― Charles Eames

“Take your pleasures seriously.”
― Charles Eames

“We like to think we're pretty special, and, OK, in some respects maybe we are. And we like to think that we design for ourselves. And we do, we really do. But in the important ways we are really very much like a lot of other people. And if you are going to design for yourself, then you have to make sure you design deeply for yourself, because otherwise you are just designing for your eccentricities and that can never be satisfying to anyone else.”
― Charles Eames

“Design is an expression of the
purpose, and it may – if it is
good enough – later be judged as
art; design depends largely on
constraints and it is a method
of action – there are always
constraints and these usually
include ethic.”
― Charles Eames