Quotes About Designing

#1. More than the act of testing, the act of designing tests is one of the best bug preventers known.

Boris Beizer

#2. I have always been drawn to designing fashions that are rebellious, like black leather jackets on suburban kinds, a corset dress, punk, blue jeans. I love that. Fashion changes all the time, and what is considered extreme or elegant or luxurious (or not luxurious) is changing all the time.

Jean Paul Gaultier

#3. Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were.

Colleen Atwood

#4. What makes us human depends on what place on our evolutionary path we're talking about. If you go back six million years ago, what makes us human is that we were walking upright. That's all. If you go to 2.6 million years ago, it's the fact that we're designing and making stone tools.

Donald Johanson

#5. I believe the only way we'll be able to solve infant mortality - and other huge social problems - is by designing solutions for those with the greatest intent to carry it out.

Jane Chen

#6. I think ultimately I make people happy: Whether I'm doing the stage show, giving somebody a makeover, or designing clothing, the end goal is to make people smile.

Carson Kressley

#7. I had business experience. I had made my living designing and building electronic equipment. Basic business was not new to me, but the music business was completely new to me. I knew nothing about distribution, or any of those things.

Greg Ginn

#8. Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.

Marcus Buckingham

#9. All the elderly ladies whom Archer knew regarded any woman who loved imprudently as necessarily unscrupulous and designing, and mere simple-minded man as powerless in her clutches. The

Edith Wharton

#10. I described the CEO job as knowing what to do and getting the company to do what you want. Designing a proper company culture will help you get your company to do what you want in certain important areas for a very long time.

Ben Horowitz

#11. For me, the concept of design is more than object-oriented; it encompasses the design of processes, systems and institutions as well. Increasingly, we need to think about designing the types of institutions we need to get things done in this rapidly accelerating world.

John Seely Brown

#12. I want to design jewelry for girls and guys ... I'ma spread it out, but I'ma design, probably when I'm just designing furniture and buildings, I'll probably being the jewelry thing, too.

Tyler, The Creator

#13. I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain - I'm just using different parts of it for different things.

Douglas Coupland

#14. When I'm designing I try to think about what I like to see on other people.

Dwyane Wade

#15. I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title.

John Romero

#16. But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems.

Paul Berg

#17. I created my bags from the notion of developing a well-edited line of fashionable, but not "trendy" handbags. By designing styles that will be as relevant tomorrow as they are today, my brand has established itself as a modern classic.

Kate Spade

#18. You can almost say that a design error is a human error because, after all, it's we humans who do the designing.

Henry Petroski

#19. I like the spreads - designing them is a welcome challenge - but for a dyed-in-the-wool page-a-day journeyman like me, it can be tough to leave a drawing unfinished at the end of the workday.

Stuart Immonen

#20. So far, designing is the most exciting thing. Ive done I have a vision of what I want the clothes to look like in my mind and its fun to see it come alive on paper.

Kim Kardashian

#21. I always have a moment when I know I'm designing the last costume that gets made for a movie, and it's always been floating up there, but it's kind of the last one. That's always probably the hardest one for me.

Colleen Atwood

#22. The mantra of any good security engineer is: 'Security is a not a product, but a process.' It's more than designing strong cryptography into a system; it's designing the entire system such that all security measures, including cryptography, work together.

Bruce Schneier

#23. Designing a product is designing a relationship.

Steve Rogers

#24. Designing a collection with Aeropostale was completely surreal.

Nash Grier

#25. No need to go to the dolphins," interjected Max Brailovsky. "One of the brightest engineers in my class was fatally attracted to a blonde in Kiev. When I heard of him last, he was working in a garage. And he'd won a gold medal for designing space-stations. What a waste!

Arthur C. Clarke

#26. Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.

Samuel Johnson

#27. 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

#28. Designing Great Beers, which has detailed analysis of percentages of ingredients used

Bradley J. Smith

#29. Suzanne Sugarbaker of Designing Women was so right when she said, "There's just nothing better in life than to ride around on the back of a convertible with a crown on your head." Words to live by.

Jill Conner Browne

#30. My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a substitute teacher. Together, they worked really only until they were sixty.

Lewis Black

#31. The biggest challenge is not coming up with the stunt, the biggest challenge is designing a sequence around it that sort of justifies its existence.

Christopher McQuarrie

#32. I am working right at both the levels- with the most wealthy clients in the world, but also the poorest. I spend half my time designing for people that have nothing.

William McDonough

#33. In designing shoes for myself; I'm not thinking of a specific person or catwalk. I'm just not thinking of clothes at all. I'm always thinking of a naked woman, actually.

Christian Louboutin

#34. Designing and developing anything of consequence is incredibly challenging.

Jonathan Ive

#35. My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.

Steve Wozniak

#36. Before computers, you'd start designing using shapes of cubes. Now I can start with something like a handkerchief, an object that doesn't have strong inside and outside boundaries or much closed volume.

Greg Lynn

#37. When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the people who went to rock concerts. It didn't go beyond that aspiration at that point.

Anna Sui

#38. I love dresses, and I've definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.

Taylor Swift

#39. Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry

Ted Nelson

#40. I sleep 12 hours and then work 24 hours. I've worked those irregular hours for the past three years. It's better to stay up day and night to come up with ideas. I usually get inspiration for game designing by working this schedule.

Satoshi Tajiri

#41. We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy. And so from social networks to sociable robots, we're designing technologies that will give us the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.

Sherry Turkle

#42. It may happen that we do not always want the most beautiful form, but one of our own designing.

Shirley Hibberd

#43. She tried to compose herself then, with several deep breaths. I gave her as long as she needed, all the while mentally designing my tombstone. R.I.P, Captain Abraham R. Griswold. He was completely useless and made girls cry.

Lia Habel

#44. If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools.

Mike Davidson

#45. I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.

Robin Day

#46. My relationship with M&S continues to be an exciting journey, from modelling to designing my online range.

Twiggy

#47. Ksubi' - the Australian jean brand, they're one of my favourite brands of just clothes and stuff, and the Swedish brand 'Acne', but other than that, not at this point in time designing. I wouldn't mind collab'n with those guys though.

ASAP Rocky

#48. My work is play. And I play when I design. I even looked it up in the dictionary, to make sure that I actually do that, and the definition of "play," number one, was "engaging in a childlike activity or endeavor," and number two was "gambling." And I realize I do both when I'm designing.

Paula Scher

#49. Luxury is feeling unrushed. It is designing a life that allows you to do what you want with high leverage, with many options, all while feeling unrushed.

Tim Ferriss

#50. Market forces which are driven by self indulgent needs designing the ultimate human experiences such as intimacy, love, solidarity and commitment as not enough and no longer needed, resulting in an ongoing emptiness and on the illusion of endless enjoyment.

Bruno De Oliveira

#51. Yet though Americans have been driving up to their houses for decades and entering through backdoors, side doors, kitchen doors, and especially doors through garages, architects keep designing houses with ceremonial front doors that are nowhere near any car or driveway.

Akiko Busch

#52. I would like to do all kinds of things: photography and art and designing; I want to help do charity things for animals and things like that.

Georgia May Jagger

#53. In designing my bridal collections, I love mixing luxe fabrics, which give the most beautiful texture and dimension to my creations.

Reem Acra

#54. I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.

Prabal Gurung

#55. In college, you're kind of designing who you want to be. And I wanted to be a big reader.

Josh Radnor

#56. In designing for the first lady, I tried to sort of be in her shoes, but I didn't really look at her as an important political figure. I looked at her as a woman who would like to wear a beautiful dress to an important gala.

Jason Wu

#57. Most of the robots being developed for home use are functional in design - Gecko's homecare robot looks rather like the Star Wars robot R2-D2. Honda and Sony are designing robots that look more like the same movie's 'android' C-3PO.

Peter Singer

#58. I always feel like a woman designing for a woman. I know what you want to accentuate and what you want to hide.

Monique Lhuillier

#59. It's cool to be a nerd. There's a general understanding that smartphones didn't come from jocks. The digital age was foreseen by a group of short-sleeved, buttoned-down, white-shirted guys and their female equivalents designing the very stuff that's now ubiquitous.

J.J. Abrams

#60. Designing posters, for me, is not only a commercial pursuit but also a philosophical endeavor.

Fang Chen

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

Mahnaz Afkhami

#62. The people designing the weapons literally often didn't know how they were being handled in the field by the Air Force - and a lot of people in the Air Force didn't understand some of the dangers. There's a very strong element of madness in this.

Eric Schlosser

#63. I never smoke grass and drive my car because, for one thing, no matter how many letters I write to the road commissions, they still refuse to start designing highways with second-chance exits.

Arj Barker

#64. I don't have a background in design, so I think it's always about what I see in the world and what inspires me. So yes, I am designing for myself. I'm going through this whole evolution, which is a process of growing up and going from modeling to styling to designing.

Erin Wasson

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

John Maynard Keynes

#66. The same time I'm designing my collection, I'm also designing my store. It has to have brand awareness, an identity. I'm also designing the racks and the hangers, and juggling a lot of things.

Kelly Wearstler

#67. Having firstrate people on the team is more important than designing hierarchies and clarifying who reports to whom

Warren Buffett

#68. In designing a lifestyle brand, you have to know more than just designing clothes.

Tommy Hilfiger

#69. One of my biggest pet peeves is well-dressed designers. If you spend that much time thinking about your own clothes, you're not spending enough time thinking about what you're designing.

Joseph Altuzarra

#70. And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time in planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope with them, than you do for things to go right.

Alan Shepard

#71. I love the idea of working with women because I always feel like a man designing womenswear needs women around him to really have a sense of what they're doing.

Jason Wu

#72. Where health care has failed is in designing a cost containment mechanism that works.

Peter Shumlin

#73. He would have recoiled still more had he been aware that her attachment rose unsolicited, and was bestowed where it awakened no reciprocation of sentiment; for the minute he discovered its existence, he laid the blame on Heathcliff's deliberate designing.

Emily Bronte

#74. This is what happens when you don't let gays marry; they start designing clothes out of spite.

Jon Stewart

#75. When I create a collection, I approach it with a cinematic point of view-I am not designing clothes, I'm creating a world.

Ralph Lauren

#76. Lemuel Ayers had had a huge success producing and designing Kiss Me, Kate. He wanted to produce this as a musical. I got the job. It was a professional score.

Stephen Sondheim

#77. I am totally, completely, 100% in love with fashion. I would wear Chanel gowns to the grocery store if I could. I'm a huge fan of Chanel and Versace, and I actually have always dreamed of designing my own line one day.

Ksenia Solo

#78. At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler.

Dennis Ritchie

#79. I live in the Dark Ages, the 17th century. Actually, I would have loved to be in Paris in the early 20th century when the Ballets Russes were there and Chanel was designing.

Iris Apfel

#80. To me designing has never been a job or profession. It's a way of life, like a priest or rabbi.

Ed Benguiat

#81. You think about the beauty and what you want to transmit. If I think about designing, I can't design.

Elsa Peretti

#82. The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

Adam Osborne

#83. It's one of the curses of designing that when you look at anything, you're constantly thinking, Why? Why - why was it designed like that, and not like this?

Jonathan Ive

#84. Joy is designing and building something that actually sees the light of day and is enjoyably used and widely adopted by the people for whom it was intended.

Richard Sheridan

#85. I personally - if I were designing the tax code - would have a tax code in which Mitt Romney paid more than 13 percent, given what I know about the kind of investments he made money from.

Bill Kristol

#86. [There are] unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process to generate objects.

Michael Hansmeyer

#87. You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society.

Frans De Waal

#88. I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

Vera Wang

#89. I might do a film someday for the collection. I love designing sets and creating environments, in film school and for my own presentations. I love telling stories.

Pamela Love

#90. I was always interested in fabric, clothes and designing. Maybe I would have been a designer by profession if I didn't start acting.

Katrina Kaif

#91. Designing a product and understanding how it filters through into the market and into the rest of the company is very important to me.

Alexander Wang

#92. Designing renders visible our hopes and dreams. It is the first signal of human intentions.

William McDonough

#93. Marketing is the act of inventing the product. The effort of designing it. The craft of producing it. The art of pricing it. The technique of selling it.

Seth Godin

#94. Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do.

Paul Graham

#95. A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex enough to demand the same kind of explanation in his own right.

Richard Dawkins

#96. Then he said, "That's a long way from stage designing, isn't it." She nodded. "Quite a long way." She started to ask him if he intended to do any work pertaining to the atom bomb, but she didn't, because what would it matter if he did or didn't?

Patricia Highsmith

#97. A lot of the key to Apple's succes is Designing technology in order to hide it.

Peter Thiel

#98. There's no such thing as designing the perfect utopian city. Everything is subject to change. There are no final frontiers.

Jacque Fresco

#99. I've always been very detail orientated, but I have gone from embellishment to nudity - from designing for a woman that likes to be dressed to designing for a woman that likes to be undressed.

Christian Louboutin

#100. I always love design but the more I designed for clients, the less I liked the process of designing for them. I do lettering and illustration for money, which clients don't mess with too much and web design for fun.

Jessica Hische