Stupid Design Quotes

#1. Sometimes you gotta look yourself in the mirror and say, 'You are the prettiest princess in all the land.' I do it once a week.

Jack Barakat

#2. 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

#3. You scare me, Sebastian. You're so good looking, and so clever, and so damn charming. Hell, you're even sporting a monster dick - not that I go for that sort of thing, but a lot of women do. Sebastian, if someone had to design a death trap for stupid women, you'd be it.

Remittance Girl

#4. Down there between our legs, it's like an entertainment complex in the middle of a sewage system. Who designed that?

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#5. God never uses anyone greatly until He tests them deeply.

A.W. Tozer

#6. I try and be as stupid as possible regarding my profession, which means I try to look at as few design magazines as possible.

Ettore Sottsass

#7. I'm not an idiot! I'm just twelve. I'm a twelve-year-old girl and neither of those facts are my fault.

Ally Carter

#8. So: now a new year, a new beginning. I've vowed not to complain. I'm too good at it, and need to practice other skills. I've also vowed to work very hard ...

Claire Messud

#9. It's more common than not that bipolar illness will start in the teens. One of the reasons I spend a lot of time on college campuses is exactly that reason. It's terribly important to talk to students about knowing these things in advance.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#10. You know how teachers are. If they get you to take out a book they love too, they're yours for life.

Gary D. Schmidt

#11. I had surprised myself this year by jumping in to reshape my life before life stepped in to reshape it for me.

Alice Steinbach

#12. Wisdom is in large part the knowledge of how to avoid doing dumb things, and thus grows globally as a function of the published inventory of stupid mistakes.

Tim Bray

#13. A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

David Hume

#14. Nevertheless, it was a little bit surprising to find that Bloody Stupid had turned to bathroom design. But, as Ridcully said, it was known that he had designed and built several large musical organs and, when you got right down to it, it was all just plumbing, wasn't it?

Terry Pratchett

#15. Faith means wanting God and wanting to want nothing else.

Brennan Manning

#16. Design everything on the assumption that people are not heartless or stupid but marvelously capable, given the chance.

Scott Hurff

#17. ... investors are constitutionally averse to buying into a troubled situation.

Benjamin Graham

#18. Computers are stupid.

Pablo Picasso

#19. That's what's great about baseball: some people are exceptional at the game, but still, even people that aren't very athletic, like me - I played Little League! It's one of those games in sports where even if you're not the greatest, you can still play.

Tom Guiry

#20. It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.

Genevieve Gorder

#21. We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonableto do so when his proposition is agreeable to us.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#22. My mum told me, 'At that moment when you know you can't do both, the marriage and the kids, choose the marriage because you're going to be spending your whole lives together, so you have to put a lot of work and attention into the relationship.'

Bryce Dallas Howard

#23. If men were but to read the New Testament with the same tone and emphasis, with which they do other books, and were to keep out of mind the idea of its being sacred, they would be disgusted with the credulity, and the want of intellect, reason and judgment, that is apparent in it.

Lysander Spooner

#24. 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

#25. On paper, actors are the dumbest group of individuals essentially out there. Most of us have not gone to college. However, we never stop learning. Because of what we do, we're constantly researching, constantly learning.

Mike Vogel

#26. All my life, I have made it complicated, but it is so simple. I love when I love. And when I love, I am myself.

Hugh Prather