Functionality Quotes

Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics, without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained. (Ferdinand Porsche)
Adding functionality is not just a matter of adding code. View quote
Wietse Venema
I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE.This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do.Please, just tell people to use KDE. View quote
Linus Torvalds
Google is in a position where it doesn't even have to strive to become a hip, conscious choice. Brands are temporary fads. Functionality is forever. Google just has to 'be,' and everyone will end up there sooner or later. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
Linguistics is a good way of defining the culture of a brand. The vocabulary used by sports and lifestyle brands - running, fitness, training, motorsports - is all about functionality, whereas the vocabulary of the luxury business - handbags, ready-to-wear - is all about the product. View quote
Francois-Henri Pinault
A watch is much more than a list of functionality and features... the bottom line is this is fashion, this is image, this something that is on our skin that we want to wear, and it's not just another electronic gadget that becomes obsolete.... there is an emotional character to it. View quote
Philippe Kahn
I can deal with functionality on a practical level. And I still have this relationship with this imaginary snake. My imaginary pal. If I'm going to be dealing in totally imaginary territory, it struck me that it would be useful to have a native as a guide. So I can have my imaginary conversations with my imaginary snake, and maybe it gives me information I already knew in part of myself, and maybe I just needed to make up an imaginary snake to tell me it. View quote
Alan Moore
I'm not a millionaire but I'm very comfortable doing what I do, and I'm more productive now than I was in my mid-20s. It's all down to functionality eventually. If you're functional it doesn't matter if you're mad. View quote
Alan Moore
Our ultimate goal is extensible programming (EP). By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system. View quote
Niklaus Wirth
It is important to emphasize the value of simplicity and elegance, for complexity has a way of compounding difficulties and as we have seen, creating mistakes. My definition of elegance is the achievement of a given functionality with a minimum of mechanism and a maximum of clarity. View quote
Fernando J. Corbató
The control objects model functionality that is not naturally tied to any other object... We do not believe that the best (most stable) systems are built by only using objects that correspond to real-life entities, something that many other object-oriented analysis and design techniques claim... Behavior that we place in control objects will, in other methods, be distributed over several other objects, making it hard to change this behavior. (Ivar Jacobson)
The combination of low culture and high technology is one of the most fascinating social features of the video game phenomenon. Computers were invented as super drones to do tasks no human in her or his right mind (much less left brain) would have the patience, or the perseverance, to manage. [...] Now our robot drones, the ones designed to take all the boring jobs, become the instrument for libidinal extravaganzas devoid of any socially productive component. Video games are computers neutered of purpose, liberated from functionality. The idea is intoxicating; like playing with the help on their night off. View quote
Charles Bernstein
The hardware business is all about per-unit manufacturing cost and functionality. The services business is less asset-intensive and more dependent on people. View quote
Anne M. Mulcahy
We see portability in electronics being a continuing requirement, higher functionality, better battery life, requiring lower power for the actual electronics. View quote
David Milne
A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials. View quote
Diane von Furstenberg
In its heyday, the car was an expression of technical flair and design genius: the original Mini, the Beetle, the 2CV, and the Fiat 500 were all, in their various ways, inspired incarnations of functionality. View quote
Martin Jacques
More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but thats more like a spice. View quote
Tadashi Yanai
I'm not looking to step in and make 'big, bold changes' - I think reddit is great, and the team has a lot of good features already in the pipeline to improve functionality for users and mods, help with subreddit discovery, improve the API, and help bring reddit to more people. View quote
Yishan Wong
It took his breath away. The elegance and functionality of the structure lay out before him, as beautiful and simple and effective as a leaf or a root cluster. To have something so much like the fruits of evolution, but designed by human minds, was awe-inspiring. It was the pinnacle of what creativity meant, the impossible made real. View quote
Daniel Abraham
I don't know how we can compare the old watches we know with the functionality and the capability of the Apple Watch. View quote
Jonathan Ive
I'm becoming far more interested in just functionality and making sure my body is as strong as it can be so I can swing my kids around and not worry about aches and pains. (Matt Damon)
You see a lot of so-called architecture that part of the ego trip overpowers the functionality and the budget and all that stuff. View quote
Frank Gehry
There is a strong view in Nigeria, as in many other cultures, that a marriage is not complete without children. I don't agree; I'm wary of the idea that people have to have some particular functionality in order to be full members of society. View quote
Ayobami Adebayo
The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld. View quote
Bill Gates
Culture is constituted by human labor, the aesthetic, and the spirit. In this regard, culture is an integrated way of life which shuns false dichotomies between sacred and so-called secular. Human labor denotes a mutuality between base and superstructure. The aesthetic argues for a norm grounded in internal beauty and ethical functionality. And the spirit is the vivifying thread woven throughout all of culture. View quote
Dwight Hopkins