A Quote by Marty Neumeier

The best design tool is a long eraser with a pencil at one end.

Marty Neumeier

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Marty Neumeier
American - Author
Born: October 10, 1947

On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener.

Maira Kalman

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.

Robert Breault

One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more important than the other.' After twenty years I learned to write directly in ink.

John Cage

A pencil has eraser because it make mistake.

The Iron Sheik

My heart is a colored pencil but my brain is an eraser

George Watsky

To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Josh Jenkins

All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.

Marilyn vos Savant

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

John Steinbeck

I don't have a favorite cooking tool. In the kitchen, I always have my pencil and notebook in my hand. I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical. The pencil has a symbolic meaning for me. The type of person who carries a pencil around is the type of person who's open to change. Someone who walks around with a pen isn't; he's the opposite.

Ferran Adria

Anything that's popular gets made into a diet. Acai is no more of a diet than the eraser on your No. 2 pencil.

Chris Kilham

Good design is innovative 2. Good design makes a product useful 3. Good design is aesthetic 4. Good design makes a product understandable 5. Good design is unobtrusive 6. Good design is honest 7. Good design is long-lasting 8. Good design is thorough, down to the last detail 9. Good design is environmentally friendly 10. Good design is as little design as possible

Dieter Rams

...as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink.

Dorothy Parker

I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil.

William Faulkner

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead In fact maybe there is a lesson there for how we should approach the future...with fourteen parts optimism - anticipating what could go right and the benefits - and one part pessimism - anticipating what could go wrong so we can avoid them.

Robert Breault

I always tell people that my life is in pencil; I have to keep an eraser in my hand because I could always get a call that could change everything.