While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must be.

- Paola Antonelli

Elegance in objects is everybody’s right, and it shouldn’t cost more than ugliness.

- Paola Antonelli

Good design is a Renaissance attitude that combines tech, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something.

- Paola Antonelli

The idea of being able to build things bottom up, atom by atom, has made [scientists] all into tinkerers. And all of a sudden scientists are seeking …

- Paola Antonelli

Designers stand between revolutions and everyday life. They’re able to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and society and convert those …

- Paola Antonelli

Be yourself, be in the moment, you’re going to be modern.

- Paola Antonelli

Heaven is satisfied curiosity.

- Paola Antonelli

We live today not in the digital, not in the physical, but in the kind of minestrone that our mind makes of the two.

- Paola Antonelli

In an ideal world, social responsibility would be a prerequisite for design, and designers would vow to produce beautiful, useful, positive, responsi…

- Paola Antonelli