“Don’t quote me on that” Spoken by Ed Dorsa Collected by the Graduating Class of 2016
Arranged by Gabriella Jacobsen Richie Parks 2016
Intro It all began in the spring of 2015 when our class took Materials & Processes with Professor Ed Dorsa. At first, Richie and I thought it was just us that recorded the often hilarious or wise spoken quotes by the head of the industrial design program. But we soon discovered that almost everyone had recorded an Ed quote or two in the margins of their notebooks. For the sake of memories and amusement we decided to collect all the quotes into one book. Ed, thank you for everything.
Ed On Design
Chirs Crowley
“We’re creating visual representations of alternative futures”
“Different doesn’t mean squat unless it’s good; shit is different”
“Don’t try to be original, just try to be good”
“If you’re designing for today it’s too late”
“Don’t wait till you know the answer to start modeling”
Kevin Chee
“You can’t put every one of your ideas in a single project”
Internships
“That was their way of saying if you don’t work out after 6 months, we’re gonna can you. Now they call it an internship”
“Whatever they see about you may be the only thing they see about you”
Dieter “Rams” | VTID Student Softball Team
Kevin Chee
“In reality, nobody buys renders, they buy products. We need to show them that”
Richie Parks
“It’s your portfolio, and my opinion”
“If you can’t make it good, make it big, if you can’t make it big, make it red”
“If you wanna kill a product, keep adding features”
”The only reason that fridges are the shape they are is because that’s the shape they were”
“People actually bend at the knees, very few people bend at the butt�
Richie Parks
“If you don’t know how to look at stuff, you don’t see it”
Ed Gets Random
“Don’t eat fish, don’t get pregnant. Those are your choices in life folks”
“I don’t know, maybe whales are more selfreflective than humans.”
”Bologna vape, I like that.”
“Never trust anybody who wears a white suit... That’s my opinion anyway”
“Go onto Google. Yeah. Image search. Yup. Okay, now type in vibrator.”
“If you’re gonna have a lot of money, you might as well buy a Bentley”
“I want a father like that one day; Dad, buy me a company”
(About Linnea’s composting toilet) “I mean… I could put shit in my salad spinner but I’m not sure what that would accomplish…”
“I use L’oreal shampoo. Because I’m worth it.”
“Since we all know you can say it when you want, you don’t have to say it in the lobby”
“I’m not nuts. I’m eccentric... And annoying. But I’m not nuts!”
“This is probably dumb but I’m gonna say it anyway”
“I can’t even talk over a saxophone”
“They better bring it to my house in a callidac”
“I don’t know if that’s hip or not, I dont care”
“Goats are always nicer than people”
“For your pin up I will even provide push pins. This is my graduation gift to you. You can even take them with you… But only if you put them in your pocket with no protection and wear tight jeans.”
“I’m a wedge-ass about chicken wings and thesis.”
Ed On Life
Kevin Chee
“If you only say what you’ve observed you can’t be wrong. It’s only when you try to fill in the blanks that you screw up”
“As I grow nearer to the end of my life it gets more fun to laugh at yours�
“For coffee and 2.50 bucks you can get Ed’s opinion”
“Nobody stops in the middle of a paragraph, and if they do, they’re not going back to the story”
“You can’t really say ‘all’ about anything anymore”
“God kids are pampered these days... You gotta fall off a few things in life or you just become a weenie!�
“What you focus on determines what you see”
“Opinions are worth what you pay for them”
“You want people to know who you are you want them to like what you do”
“Follow your mission, not your passion”
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