Top 42 Design Theory Quotes
#1. Garden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens.
Tom Turner
#2. Leo Hurwicz is the father of mechanism design theory and has inspired much of my work, and Roger Myerson is an old friend and collaborator and a tremendous economist.
Eric Maskin
#3. Landscape design theory has been rotting away, peacefully, like a garden temple, since the close of the eighteenth century.
Tom Turner
#4. If the theory is confirmed by observation, it will be the successful conclusion of a search going back more than 3,000 years. We will have found the grand design.
Stephen Hawking
#6. Sometimes Ronan thought Adam was so used to the right way being painful that he doubted any path that didn't come with agony.
Maggie Stiefvater
#7. Intelligent Design is a remarkably uncreative theory that abandons the search for understanding at the very point where it is most needed. If Intelligent Design is really a science, then the burden is on its scientists to discover the mechanisms used by the Intelligent Designer. (80)
Michael Shermer
#8. I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida. It was so blatant ... I had never been so described as Florida described me.
Sidney Poitier
#9. When I arrived at Harvard, I wanted to design a course in political theory that would have interested me, back when I was started out, in a way that the standard things didn't.
Michael Sandel
#10. We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.
Jonah Goldberg
#11. Physically, gardens must have boundaries. Mentally, they can reach to the limits of the known universe. The ideas that bestow such vast extent upon gardens derive from sun, earth, art, water, history, civilization, family, anything.
Tom Turner
#12. Intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.
William A. Dembski
#13. The fact that some religious fanatics might support a theory doesn't invalidate it, anymore than the concurrence of UFO abduction cults invalidates the notion of extra-terrestrial life.
James P. Hogan
#14. When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#15. To understand Darwin's work, you have to distinguish between his theory of descent and his theory of natural selection. THe full name of the first is the theory of descent with modification. Some call it the fact of evolution, and some call it the doctrine of evolution.
Lee Spetner
#16. It's a big plethora of music floating around in my head all the time, and I'll sit there and write a song.
Lee Brice
#17. Talon gasped. "I am thirty-two, thank you very much, and Harry is hot.
Claire Contreras
#19. You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.
Henri Matisse
#20. The Game gives you a Purpose. The Real Game is, to Find a Purpose.
Vineet Raj Kapoor
#21. It was Einstein's dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein's day hadn't made enough progress in understanding the forces of nature for that to be a realistic goal.
Stephen Hawking
#22. I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.
James Dyson
#23. The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these liberal arts: grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, perspective, history, anatomy, theory of design, arithmetic.
Lorenzo Ghiberti
#24. The theory of mechanism design can be thought of as the 'engineering' side of economic theory.
Eric Maskin
#25. Here's the general theory: To clarify, add detail. Imagine that. To clarify, add detail. And clutter and overload are not an attribute of information, they are failures of design. If the information is in chaos, don't start throwing out information, instead fix the design.
Edward Tufte
#26. With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.
Olivier Theyskens
#27. I don't think that design needs theory, but I think designers need theory.
Johanna Drucker
#28. Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.
Edward Tufte
#29. The legislator should keep two things constantly before his eyes: 1. The pure theory developed to its minutest details; 2. The particular condition of actual things which he designs to reform.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#30. I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.
Edgar Allan Poe
#31. Cobb would have to play center field on my all time team. But where would that put Speaker? In left. If I had them both, I would certainly play them that way.
John McGraw
#32. I don't know if I was a star. I was certainly working a lot and that was strange because there were good things about it and things that were difficult.
Jennifer Connelly
#34. If the rhythm or beat of the music changes with a live orchestra, you have to think on your feet. If you feel like you are not on your leg, you have to make a decision to make it look as though nothing is going wrong.
Misty Copeland
#35. design is a term that bridges theory and practice. It encompasses both a principled approach and a set of contextualized practices that are constantly adapting to circumstances.
Helen Beetham
#36. I shut the door and turned, crossing my arms. "I am not in the mood to Dr. Phil you two. I can't figure out my own shit.
Jamie McGuire
#37. Darwin- I think the theory is: out of 'chaos' arises something that resembles 'design'. But it's all random.
Joyce Carol Oates
#38. In the process Paul laid out a comprehensive theory of poverty, of a world designed by the elites of all nations to serve their own ends, the pieces of the design enshrined in ideologies, which erased the histories of how things came to be as they were.
Tracy Kidder
#39. The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory.
Arthur Eddington
#41. Darwinism may be a fine theory in other contexts, but in startups, intelligent design works best.
Peter Thiel
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