Ross Belmont

Mitch Kapor on Design Wisdom

January 14, 2012 Ross Belmont

When you go to design a house you talk to an architect first, not an engineer. Why is this? Because the criteria for what makes a good building fall substantially outside the domain of what engineering deals with. You want the bedrooms where it will be quiet so people can sleep, and you want the dining room to be near the kitchen. The fact that the kitchen and dining room should be proximate to each other emerges from knowing first, that the purpose of the kitchen is to prepare food and the dining room to consume it, and second, that rooms with related purposes ought to be closely related in space. This is not a fact, nor a technical item of knowledge, but a piece of design wisdom.

Mitch Kapor, PC industry pioneer, founder of Lotus and the designer of Lotus 1-2-3

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