"Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design"
- Herbert Simon
About this Quote
This quote by Herbert Simon speaks with the concept that engineering, medication, service, architecture and painting are all worried about the idea of design. Design is not about how things are, however how they might be. It is about the capacity of what could be, rather than the reality of what is. Style has to do with developing something new, something that has not been seen before. It has to do with taking the necessary aspects and integrating them in a way that is unique and imaginative. Design has to do with developing something that is both functional and visually pleasing. Style is about taking the essential and making it into something that is contingent, something that is more than what it was previously. Style has to do with developing something that is both practical and lovely.
This quote is written / told by Herbert Simon between June 15, 1916 and February 9, 2001. He/she was a famous Scientist from USA.
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