Future By Design Quotes

#1. There are no plans, just people fooling themselves by attempting to design their fates and futures. It makes them feel invincible, even if it's for a transient period of time.

Kanza Javed

#2. Architecture is a hypothesis about the future that holds that subsequent change will be confined to that part of the design space encompassed by that architecture.

Brian Foote

#3. My wish is that we design the future of learning. We don't want to be spare parts for a great human computer.

Sugata Mitra

#4. The challenge is to develop visions, strategies, design and innovation, not just for surviving but for thriving in this new globalising society.

Peter Ellyard

#5. If one discloses everything in speech he 'designs' in his mind, he will attain Moksha [liberation] sooner. The mind is so restless that it will create whatever design it wants and ruin countless [future] lives.

Dada Bhagwan

#6. Even if I should never see a native converted, God may design by my patience and continuance in the Word to encourage future missionaries.

Henry Martyn

#7. Design your financial future in every respect, and then make a plan to achieve it.

Brian Tracy

#8. One thing that is sometimes forgotten in this "future of books" discussion is that there are all these awesome presses - big and small - that are producing and designing amazing books.

Kevin Sampsell

#9. If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.

Edward De Bono

#10. The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic 'right-brain' thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't.

Daniel H. Pink

#11. Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.

Robert L. Peters

#12. The future will look futuristic only because we will be trying to make it look futuristic.

Anonymous

#13. Be the designer of your own future.

Debasish Mridha

#14. This is the time of myths. They are woven into the present like silk strands from the past, like a wire mesh from the future, creating an interlacing pattern, a grand design, a repeating motif. Don't dismiss myth, boy. And never, ever, dismiss the Bookman

Lavie Tidhar

#15. I have not the most definite designs on the future.

Henry David Thoreau

#16. Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.

Paola Antonelli

#17. In the future, human rights will be increasingly a universal criterion for designing ethical systems.

Mahnaz Afkhami

#18. But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .

John Maynard Keynes

#19. People who have been there forever, left to their own devices, are rarely in the best position to design the future. It's those who consciously listen to the constituents of the future who can understand which direction to move in.

Crystal Kadakia

#20. You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

Steve Jobs

#21. When you think of all the things that are made from oil or in the chemical industry, if in the future we could find cells to replace most of those processes, the ideal way would be to do it by direct design.

Craig Venter

#22. Where you have been isn't half as important as where you are headed. Keep your sights and focus on the future.

Bidemi Mark-Mordi

#23. As to the future, the only certainty is that the Internet will encounter new technical and social challenges. If the Internet is to continue as an innovative means of collaboration, discovery, and social interaction, it will need to draw on its legacy of adaptability and participatory design.

Janet Abbate

#24. Evolutionary learning calls upon our creative potentials as it empowers us to envision images of the future and bring those images to life by design.

Bela H. Banathy

#25. A design that doesn't take change into account risks major redesign in the future.

Erich Gamma

#26. The Very Big Stupid is a thing which breeds by eating The Future. Have you seen it? It sometimes disguises itself as a good-looking quarterly bottom line, derived by closing the R&D department.

Frank Zappa

#27. To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

Charles J. Givens

#28. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new guards for their future security -

James Madison

#29. When you are in an unpleasant environment that makes you feel uncomfortable, one of the key ways to improve that situation is through design. That's why I think it is so important to help develop and showcase young designers, as they are our future.

Yelena Baturina

#30. We will have to decide today whether we will design the future or resign ourselves to it.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#31. There is no future. There is no past. Do you see? Time is simultaneous, an intricately structured jewel that humans insist on viewing one edge at a time, when the whole design is visible in every facet.

Alan Moore

#32. You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.

Edward De Bono

#33. Your divine design dictates your future direction.

Aubrey Malphurs

#34. There is much to learn about what could happen in the gardens of the future, should designers wish to learn about the past.

Tom Turner

#35. I have no designs on society, or nature, or God. I am simply what I am, or I begin to be that. I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future. I love to live.

Henry David Thoreau

#36. I wanted to breathe new life into the timeless trend of past, present and future. These unique designs celebrate the bride and groom's passage through their new life together.

Vera Wang

#37. Due to the failure of politics, which has become a process of middle-management, art has become one of the last open spaces to question core beliefs and to design a viable future. Art becomes an open space where we can ask fundamental questions about ourselves.

Antony Gormley

#38. Destiny to some people is a preconceived notion as a design of blind faith, while in fact destiny is a constitution of endowed efforts in an attempt to steer toward a desired outcome. Create your destiny and reach for your dreams, you only live once.

Husam Wafaei

#39. I do think that in the near future, if it hasn't happened already, people will be able to use technology to design their own novels, perhaps with individuals themselves as the main character. In other words, everything is being individualized and narrowed.

Don DeLillo

#40. Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Jim Rohn

#41. The future belongs to neither the conduit or content players, but those who control the filtering, searching and sense-making tools we will rely on to navigate through the expanses of cyberspace.

Paul Saffo

#42. You are the architect of your own future, so design your future with uncompromising sincerity.

Debasish Mridha

#43. At Brit + Co, our mission is to unlock creativity, so we look for future employees that actively flex their creative muscles. The design of your resume is the first way to let me know more about your aesthetic.

Brit Morin

#44. The present and the future are about sense-making, about what we as humans value.

Daniel Egger