Top 100 Quotes About Design
#1. People who espouse Intelligent Design believe nature is so complex as to require an intelligent designer-God. Similarly, liberals believe the economy is so complex as to require an intelligent designer-government.
Michael Shermer
#2. As much as we think of performance management as numeric and thus perfectly quantifiable, it is as much a product of context and social science as the products we design and develop.
Steven Sinofsky
#3. I think [the design] sucks. Its shape is not innovative, it's not elegant and it doesn't feel anthropomorphic.
Steve Jobs
#4. Design is more than meets the eye. Design is about communicating benefits. Design is not about designers. Design is not an ocean it's a fishbowl. Design is creating something you believe in.
Chuck Green
#6. In the wake of the Supreme Court of Canada decision (Chaoulli-Zeliotis), the Canadian Medicare system is about to be redesigned. Physicians must not just sit at the table, but must position themselves at the head, where they can lead and direct the nature of that design.
Brian Day
#7. Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.
Charles Eames
#8. People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.
Carrie-Anne Moss
#9. 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
#10. I believe there's still room for the dream a lot of people in the industry have - to design and build your own cars.
Henrik Fisker
#11. We want people to realize you are at a design school, not a land grant college. The way we look says a great deal about who we are.
James Hall
#12. I try to keep the meetings small, especially when we're doing product design.
Justin Kan
#13. I don't design my own clothes. It's so not what I think about.
Colleen Atwood
#14. I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.
John Malkovich
#15. The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse.
Marquis De Sade
#16. Something I've really enjoyed learning more about is course design.
Ernie Els
#17. LEGO gives its designers cost parameters: they can design anything they want as long as it falls within budget. These cost limitations resulted in a spike of creativity. 4.
Ramon Vullings
#18. The hope of good design lies in those designers who believe in what they do and will only do what they believeContrary to hearsay, it is possible to make a living that way.
Alexander Girard
#19. Uniqlo as a company has always developed new fabrics and is always trying to be innovative. The design is simple, so the fabric is important.
Nicola Formichetti
#20. 'LaFerrari' means 'the Ferrari.' The excellence. In this car, we put everything we are able to do. Our extreme technology, extreme experience, extreme capability. And this has been the first Ferrari totally designed in our design center.
Luca Cordero Di Montezemolo
#21. The woman would be beautiful if she wasn't so deceitful, but snakes ofte3n had the most beautiful design on their scales.
Kristin Miller
#22. I'm experimenting in public. At the design grad schools, these are people sitting around in groups, putting their work on a wall, analyzing it and putting it back in a drawer. I think there's little risk in that.
David Carson
#23. But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.
Niklaus Wirth
#24. You can't be a successful Dictator and design women's underclothing.
P.G. Wodehouse
#25. I am the Soul.
I am the Light Divine.
I am Love.
I am Will.
I am Fixed Design.
Alice Bailey
#26. I look at graphic design as communication, meaning that the work has to have a vibe to connect to the viewer or perceiver. I make a black and white drawing and then add color digitally, bringing in a contemporary pattern to the composition to create a vibrance.
John Van Hamersveld
#27. Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#28. For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design.
Michael Arad
#29. The temptation to believe that the Universe is the product of some sort of design, a manifestation of subtle aesthetic and mathematical judgment, is overwhelming. The belief that there is "something behind it all" is one that I personally share with, I suspect, a majority of physicists.
Paul Davies
#30. Until I was eighteen, I did not know that you could study fashion design or art. I really didn't know. I already had my nose in the art world; I was already looking at things, but I didn't really get it that you could study that because my school was a very different environment.
Raf Simons
#31. One has freedom as the principal means of action; the other has servitude. Their ... paths [are] diverse; nevertheless, each seems called by some secret design of Providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#32. Design accelerates the adoption of new ideas. And many of these ideas are important for designers to show that there is a way. When you see things through that lens, you realize it applies to any industry and any form of design.
Yves Behar
#33. Driven to design by what she refers to as the lack of glamour in the industry, Bar Or creates for the modern woman who is a fashion risk-taker, one who is confident and, perhaps, has a larger than life personality.
Aslaug Magnusdottir
#34. I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.
Tom Stoppard
#35. A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy certain criteria, not only functional, but also psychological and aesthetic. Good design emphasizes the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.
Dieter Rams
#36. All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.
Tadao Ando
#37. It is the duty of machines and those who design them to understand people. It is not our duty to understand the arbitrary, meaningless dictates of machines.
Donald A. Norman
#38. they realized that all the published data was wrong - "little better than guesswork" - they had also discovered what knowledge was needed to design wings that would fly.
Kevin Ashton
#39. When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.
David Coverdale
#40. Chaos Magick can be understood as the discovery and application of effective techniques and scripts to maximize human design for living.
Phil Hine
#41. That GOD always gave us light in our doubts, when we had no other design but ask to please Him.
Brother Lawrence
#42. I assert that the art of sculpture, among all the arts connected with design, is at least seven times greater than any other, for the following reason: why, sir, a statue of true sculpture ought to have seven points of view, which ought all to boast equal excellence.
Benvenuto Cellini
#43. Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new ... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?
Paracelsus
#44. Well, yes, I mean, I think that, you know, my sources suggest that there's a lot of support for the notion that there is a lot of Koran abuse and that it was very much a systematic design, not just an aberration.
Jane Mayer
#45. Goal we've always had for design at Apple is to create solutions that are inevitable.
Jonathan Ive
#46. Her father was frightened by a strange bed or a foreign language or a political party he didn't belong to. Her father truly believed that the Democratic party was a subversive organization whose design would destroy the United States and put it in the hands of bearded communists.
John Steinbeck
#47. Right and wrong do not exist in graphic design. There is only effective and non-effective communication.
Peter Bilak
#48. Design a portfolio you are not likely to trade ... akin to premarital counseling advice; try to build a portfolio that you can live with for a long, long time.
Robert D. Arnott
#49. Everything in the world is part of a design. Everything has meaning and purpose and a place in the pattern of existence, only it's not always possible to understand what that design is. Only God can understand the design, because he invented it.
Susan Howatch
#50. Weight Weight is an implied, if not critical, concept in design and animation. How you show an object in motion greatly affects its weight and therefore its believability. Weight in animation is a perception of mass. An object's movement, how it reacts in motion, and how it reacts to other objects
Dariush Derakhshani
#51. ....young people unskilled in mathematics, addled by credit cards, and weaned on so-called intelligent design...will somehow retool American science for another generation of world industrial leadership.
Kevin Phillips
#52. Goal setting is good stewardship. Instead of letting things happen, goals help us make things happen. Instead of living by default, goals help us live by design. Instead of living out of memory, goals help us live out of imagination.
Mark Batterson
#53. Mastery of design, empathy, play, and other seemingly "soft" aptitudes is now the main way for individuals and firms to stand out in a crowded marketplace.
Daniel H. Pink
#54. Golf course design is exciting.
Tom Kite
#55. I have to experience the Nokia products. I'm a major contributor to the design and the quality of the devices. I have a lot of feedback to provide the teams on that. But also I have to carry competitive devices. You have to understand the competition.
Stephen Elop
#56. In the '70s and '80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science.
John Maeda
#57. My vision is the ability to design clothes for a man who wants to create his own style and doesn't want to dress like he's in uniform, to look like the guy in the ad, or to feel like he has to put it together that way.
John Varvatos
#58. Each event touching another; like threads that design in concert, creating the fabric that is life.
Don Bradley
#59. The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times.
Philip Schaff
#60. There is in this Universe much of what seems to be design.
Carl Sagan
#61. When we were in the design studio I always was pretending like I was in a closet asking my friend before I step out into the world what do I look like? And everybody wants that honest friend before they go and go to dinner or go to an event.
Nicole Richie
#62. In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone.
E.B. White
#63. If you don't have an emotionally engaging design for a device, no one will care about it.
Tony Fadell
#64. Doctors troubleshoot the human body - they never got a chance to debug it. (It took God one day to design, prototype, and release that product; talk about schedule pressure! I guess we can forgive priority-two bugs like bunions and male pattern baldness.)
David J. Agans
#65. Why would you design something if it didn't improve the human condition?
Niels Diffrient
#66. It's tens of millions of calculations just to design one connection between a piece of structural steel and another piece of structural steel.
Greg Lynn
#67. People make decisions that may have one intent and yet are somehow perverted into something else. And sometimes it's because of design. Sometimes it's because of happenstance. But very often, it's mysterious to them.
Atom Egoyan
#68. I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.
Edward Tufte
#69. You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
Edie Campbell
#70. After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America.
Russ Carnahan
#71. The user experience design of a product essentially lies between the intentions of the product and the characteristics of your user.
David Kadavy
#72. Art and design are not luxuries, nor somehow incompatible with science and engineering,
Bran Ferren
#73. A richer present I design,
A finished form, of work divine,
Surpassing all the power of art;
A thinking head, a grateful heart.
Mary Barber
#74. Whenever explaining an event, we must choose from three competing modes of explanation. These are regularity, chance, and design ... To attribute an event to design is to say that it cannot reasonably be referred to either regularity or chance.
William A. Dembski
#75. 3 requirements for a good designer: 1. genuine knowledge and love of great design. 2. sound knowledge of principles and techniques of communication. 3. heart (passion).
Lester Beall
#77. As we move into the 21st century, it becomes ever clearer that the ultimate, most intimate territory for design is not electronics, or interiors, or furniture, or the Web. It's us-our own living, breathing, biological selves ... the personal makeover has become our most fundamental design task.
Rick Poynor
#78. Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
John Eldredge
#79. I have had this view of the optimization of the electrode design for a long time. Historically we went through various phases in the work and eventually worked on large sheets - very large sheets - of palladium.
Martin Fleischmann
#80. Obamacare is terminal. It is going to fail under the crushing weight of its own flawed design.
Glenn Thompson
#81. I have always loved clothes, and the opportunity to design my own line could not be missed. It's a dream job.
Jasmine Guinness
#82. Whether one sees the world as God's creation or as a secular mystery that science is on the way to figuring out, there is no denying the beauty and majesty of everything from mountain ranges, deserts, and rain forests to the exquisite details in the design of an ordinary mosquito.
Robert C. Solomon
#83. If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support.
Robert W. Floyd
#84. Computers are scary. They're nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this. He knew that computers were bulky and hernia-inducing and Darth Vader black. He understood the value of declarative design.
Wesley Morris
#85. Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor's 'Batman: Death by Design.'
Martin Filler
#86. Keep it simple, stupid. Good game design shouldn't keep you looking at the manual but should have enough depth where you feel like you bring something new to the game every time you play.
Rob Manuel
#87. Business culture operates differently in different cities around the world. But I don't think it's possible to design one system that incorporates all social norms for networking. Human beings are just too diverse.
Danah Boyd
#88. UX designers have to constantly learn about human psychology, interaction design, information architecture and user research techniques, just to name a few, in order to create the right solutions to a user's problems.
Jenifer Tidwell
#89. In all of his products, technology would be married to great design, elegance, human touches and even romance.
Walter Isaacson
#90. The bias among architecture critics isn't against skyscrapers per se, but against the way in which their design is so heavily dictated by economic considerations - the way in which skyscrapers are real estate before they are architecture.
Paul Goldberger
#91. In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
Samuel E. Morison
#92. Once you have the statement, it will design itself.
Bob Gill
#93. People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.
Calvin Klein
#94. The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,' ... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question.
Kenneth R. Miller
#95. Every initiation reaches a point of crisis, by design. If it was easy to let go of the old way, there would be no need for initiation. We'd seat easily into new wisdom.
S. Kelley Harrell
#96. Note to Self - Thoughts design my energy! My thoughts WILL design the energy
that moves me!
Alan Rufus
#97. Whether it's a computer or a pen drawing, design is about drawing shapes and making physical things.
Jake Barton
#98. The world's not what I want it to be. But then no one ever said I had the right to design the world.
Norman Mailer
#99. To be able to design for the plus-sized consumer, for me, that's just beyond. It's a dream.
Khloe Kardashian
#100. Misery, depression, elation all mine, refine confinement all my design.
Henry Rollins
