My ideal office wouldn't have a chair. You would do two things there: stand up or lie down. These are the body's most natural positions.

- Niels Diffrient

Why would you design something if it didn't improve the human condition?

- Niels Diffrient

It looks like a galosh with electronics in it.

- Niels Diffrient

The best way to know what people want is not by asking them, but by understanding them.

- Niels Diffrient

When design springs from an understanding of the people who are going to use a product, you begin to see forms that you would never have imagined.

- Niels Diffrient

The less there is of a phone, the more I like it.

- Niels Diffrient

Today the telephone takes precedence over everything. It reaches a point of terrorism, particularly at dinnertime.

- Niels Diffrient