【ystore雅浩家具】健康辦公 專業人體工學區

In architecture, or furniture, or jackstraws, it is the connection that can do you in. Where two materials come together, brother, watch out！

不管是建築、家具或是jackstraws遊戲中，都是細節連結的部份才可能讓你功敗垂成。當兩種材料的東西攪和在一起時，老兄，千萬要注意了！

That－god－damn－whistling. When you're whistling, you're not thinking.

討厭的口哨聲，當你吹口哨時，你並沒有在思考。

Unlike Keats, who said that knowing about the rainbow shatters its beauty, I feel that knowledge about an object can only enrich your feeling for the object itself.

John Keats曾說過，科學的解釋摧毀了彩虹的美麗。但我認為對某個事物的認知只會豐富你對這個事物本身的情感。

Beyond the age of information is the age of choices.

資訊時代之後會是抉擇的時代。

We start gradually, as in a love affair. We only begin to ignite when every living moment is dedicated to the search.

我們慢慢開始，就好像談戀愛那樣，當我們將所有醒著的時刻都投注於追尋，我們才能開始燃燒生命。

Don't take any job with whose objective you do not agree and don't take a job as a stepping-stone to something else ...By following these guidelines, you have a chance of bringing your entire experience to the jobs you do and avoiding a lot of misery.

不要接受你無法認同其目的的工作，也不要接受你視為跳板的工作。如果你照著這些建議，你將有機會從工作中實現全部的自我，也避免掉一大堆的麻煩苦惱。

Recent years have shown a growing preoccupation with the circumstances surrounding the creative act and a search for the ingredients that promote creativity. This preoccupation in itself suggests that we are in a special kind of trouble－and indeed we are.

近年來有越來越多的人執著於創作的環境，並且想找出那些能激發創意的要素，這種執著本身就暗示著我們身處某種特殊的困境－而事實也確實如此。

Toys are not really as innocent as they look. Toys and games are the preludes to serious ideas.

玩具並不像外表那樣純真，玩具和遊戲其實都是嚴肅思考的前奏曲。

Innovate as a last resort. More horrors are done in the name of innovation than any other.

創新是最後的堡壘。以創新為名而做出糟糕的事要多於任何其他的藉口。

Most people aren't trained to want to face the process of re-understanding a subject they already know. One must obtain not just literacy, but deep involvement and re-understanding.

大部份的人都不情願經歷對他們已知的事物進行再度了解的過程。但一個人必須掌握的不僅僅是讀寫能力，更是對事物深入研究和重新認識的能力。

The details are not details. They make the product. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life.

其實細節不僅僅是細節，全部加起來就成為產品，而且最後就是這些細節賦予產品真正的生命。

If I pass on to you what is meaningful to me, it will be a better, more useable chunk of stuff, than if I attempted to pass on the whole business, most of which was not meaningful to me.

如果我將對我有意義的部份傳承給你，對你會更合適也更有用，勝過我將全部且包含一堆對我無意義的東西都一古腦兒地塞給你。

The concept of "appropriateness", this "how-it-should-be-ness", has equal value in the circus, in the making of a work of art, and in science.

"適當"的概念，即"事物本身應該有的狀態"，對於馬戲團、藝術創作與科學，都具有同樣重要的價值。

Eventually everything connects－people, ideas, objects...the quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.

每件事物到頭來都會彼此連結－人、想法、物體.... 連結的品質即決定所有事物的品質。

The marvelous part about a kite problem is that this is one area in which one can definitely judge its success or failure－that it will fly or it will not fly. I wish more problems could be so beautifully defined.

關於風箏最美妙的部份就是，你可以馬上判定它是成功或失敗－－也就是飛不起來，但願有更多的問題也能定義得如此乾脆。

【A NOTE ON 100 QUOTES】

Charles Eames wrote very little in the way of formal books or articles. In fact, my co-editor, Eames Demetrios, has argued that the Eames films are the Eames essays. But Charles did have a remarkable facility with the spoken word, and his lectures were another critical part of his body of work---he sometimes spoke of the ideas in the same way as he spoke of the other products of the Eames Office. For this reason, a book of 100 quotes to celebrate the Eames centennial seemed like a natural. In searching for quotes, we turned to a number of sources: articles, books, films, interviews,lectures, notes and office files. The six Norton Lectures given at Harvard University in 1970-1971 are left largely unreferened in this collection because they work best as a cohesive whole.

Charles often talked abort constraints. The constraint of this project---because of our desire to see it in multiple languages---was to choose short quotes. These will surely whet your appetite to dig deeper.