There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence. Votes: 4
Massimo VignelliCharacter design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader's attention. Votes: 4
Ted NaifehThe new strategy is to teach intelligent design without calling it intelligent design. Votes: 4
Kenneth R. MillerArt and design are not luxuries, nor somehow incompatible with science and engineering, Votes: 4
Bran FerrenI'm not into fashion, but I like design. I wear the same shoes every day. Votes: 4
Tyler, The CreatorI no longer teach meditation, only software design. Votes: 3
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellI design genetic algorithms, neural network and artificial intelligence systems. Votes: 3
Frederick LenzI design genetic algorithms, neural network and artificial intelligence systems. Votes: 3
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellThe low desire, the base design That makes another's virtues less. Votes: 3
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowAlways think of drawing, getting the forms realized, emphasizing the design. Votes: 3
John French SloanUser-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project. Votes: 3
Donald A. NormanNo architect should design buildings that import a huge amount of energy. Votes: 3
Christiana FigueresI am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design. Votes: 3
William LandayApple's Jony Ive describes his "fanatical" approach to design in new interview Votes: 3
Jonathan IveIt is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership. Votes: 3
R. Buckminster FullerGreat design is a multi-layered relationship between human life and its environment. Votes: 3
Naoto Fukasawa... that order generated without design can far outstrip plans men consciously contrive Votes: 3
Friedrich August von HayekTreachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design. Votes: 3
Francois de La RochefoucauldI love math. I have little secret number tattoos everywhere. I design them. Votes: 3
Pauley PerretteTruth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living. Votes: 3
Agatha ChristieThe beauty of design ought to be totally incidental to the enterprise itself. Votes: 3
Stephen MetcalfIf your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment. Votes: 3
Ernest RutherfordThe fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design. Votes: 3
Edward Robert HarrisonGood design is clear thinking made visible, bad design is stupidity made visible Votes: 3
Edward TufteThere's a saying in the software design industry: "Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two." Votes: 3
Larry WallMaking good design is easy. It's polishing the half-assed stuff that takes time. Votes: 3
Stefan G. BucherDesigners shouldn't design for museums any more than mummies should die for them. Votes: 3
Ralph CaplanTaking delight in the journey takes confidence. It pushes the envelope of design. Votes: 3
Seth GodinThe world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design. Votes: 3
Robert Louis StevensonCharacter design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the readers attention. Votes: 3
Ted NaifehIntuitive design happens when current knowledge is the same as the target knowledge. Votes: 3
Jared SpoolAn enterprise's most vital assets lie in its design and other creative capabilities. Votes: 3
Lee Kun-heeUnfortunately, the client that exists today is still pretty much the prototype design. Votes: 3
Shawn FanningDesign is a process - an intimate collaboration between engineers, designers, and clients. Votes: 3
Henry DreyfussMarket-driven design builds the success of the product's marketing into the product itself. Votes: 3
Seth GodinBurberry is now as much a media-content company as we are a design company Votes: 3
Christopher BaileyIt's when we're given choice that we sit with the gods and design ourselves. Votes: 3
Dorothy GilmanThe essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live. Votes: 3
Albert HadleyFaith gives the assurance that our lives and our history have a moral design. Votes: 3
George W. BushI've always had an interest in design, and I have always loved creating things. Votes: 3
Jaime PresslyGood buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design. Votes: 3
Stephen GardinerThere are professions more harmful than industrial design but only a few of them Votes: 3
Victor PapanekWith the Solaris, however, I wanted to design a very simple, elegant dress watch Votes: 3
Marc NewsonDesign in black and white. Add color for emphasis, when your design is complete. Votes: 3
Diane WilsonTo design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master. Votes: 3
Milton GlaserGood buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design. Votes: 3
Stephen GardinerGod is not an American. Nature did not design Americans to be prosperous forever. Votes: 3
Richard LammHow can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design? Votes: 3
Kinky FriedmanMore men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray. Votes: 3
Francois de La RochefoucauldDon't worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop. Votes: 3
Jeffrey ZeldmanI'm Irish but I design something that is quintessentially English and I love hats. Votes: 3
Philip TreacyThroughout the country, I see the same design problems and solutions over and over. Votes: 3
Douglas WilsonCisco has not and does not design products for the purpose of political censorship. Votes: 3
Marc ChandlerIt is impossible to design anything that is foolproof because fools are so ingenious. Votes: 3
Groucho MarxCopywriting is a design muse, it carves a beautiful masterpiece in an imaginative way. Votes: 3
Sharen SongIt's not the ideas; it's design, implementation and hard work that make the difference. Votes: 3
Michael AbrashThe design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture. Votes: 3
Jeff SmithNo design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood Votes: 3
Ludwig Mies van der RoheMy idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision. poetry, surrealism and magic [to design]. Votes: 3
Philippe StarckOf course design is about problem solving, but I cannot resist adding something personal. Votes: 3
Wim CrouwelEverything we design and make is an improvisation, a lash-up, something inept and provisional. Votes: 3
David PyeDelay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. Votes: 3
Miguel de CervantesI like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression. Votes: 3
John MalkovichHaving the USDA design your food pyramid is like having Al Capone do your taxes. Votes: 3
Caldwell EsselstynMy mom modeled and made clothes, so I always had such an appreciation for design. Votes: 3
Blake LivelyWe should not try to design a better world. We should make better feedback loops. Votes: 3
Tim HarfordI love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.' Votes: 3
Gary RossI've been called the journeyman. It's really more by default than it is by design. Votes: 3
Chris SquireComputer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is. Votes: 3
Larry WallScience can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice. Votes: 3
Harold E. VarmusPerhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist. Votes: 3
Terence ConranIn design it is important to shoe the effect of an action. ... Feedback is critical. Votes: 3
Donald A. NormanI always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object. Votes: 3
Philip TreacyGoal we've always had for design at Apple is to create solutions that are inevitable. Votes: 3
Jonathan IveThere is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings. Votes: 3
Theodore RooseveltIBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film. Votes: 3
Douglas TrumbullIndie authors write, design, sell. Like magic, skip one and you make must read vanish. Votes: 3
Temple Emmet WilliamsWatching my dad, Ralph Lauren, design clothes when I was young, I was always inspired. Votes: 3
Dylan LaurenIt is inappropriate (to allow parents) to design the curriculum and to run the school. Votes: 3
Rod PaigePeople kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train. Votes: 3
Marc NewsonA design career is a process of learning better and better what you know instinctively. Votes: 3
Mario Bellini... man cannot help but transcend himself as soon as he begins to design and construct. Votes: 3
Samuel FlormanTo create a memorable design you need to start with a thought that's worth remembering. Votes: 3
Thomas ManssReason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational. Votes: 3
Christian Friedrich HebbelGood design should reflect a sense of human history-some aspect of where we've come from. Votes: 3
Hartmut EsslingerSince the design of the movement is paramount, shape, for me, should have no significance. Votes: 3
George RickeyJust just because there are flaws in aircraft design that doesn't mean flying carpets exist. Votes: 3
Ben GoldacreAegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend. Votes: 3
HesiodWriting code is not production, it's not always craftsmanship though it can be, it's design. Votes: 3
Joel SpolskyThe word design is everything and nothing. The design and the product itself are inseparable. Votes: 3
Jonathan IveWhat I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful... Votes: 3
Michelle ObamaThe trouble begins with a design philosophy that equates 'more options' with 'greater freedom.' Votes: 3
Brian EnoFind the simplest model that is not a lie is the key to better software design. Votes: 3
David ParnasThe fact I've been in every lineup of Yes has been more by default than design. Votes: 3
Chris SquireI'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business. Votes: 3
Caroline WozniackiIf you write your own tools, you can sort of see new things, design new things. Votes: 3
Saul Griffithit seemed marriage by its very design was meant to seek out love and destroy it. Votes: 3
Kelly O'Connor McNeesDesign is the key to everything. If you learn how to design you can do anything. Votes: 3
Doug CranmerIf you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design. Votes: 3
Ralf SpethEver since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process. Votes: 3
Maria SharapovaYou can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one. Votes: 3
John MalkovichTo dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine! Votes: 3
Alexander PopeIf you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you. Votes: 3
Edward de BonoDelete, delete, delete and at the end find the âcore aspect of the designâ Votes: 3
Achille CastiglioniWhen any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end. Votes: 3
John DenhamMassive Change is not about the world of design; it's about the design of the world. Votes: 3
Bruce MauWhen you make a company, you make a utopia. It's where you design your perfect world. Votes: 3
Derek SiversDecide today to design and build the ideal relationship in your life. It's up to you. Votes: 3
Brian TracyThe more that a person brings to design, the better his or her ability to communicate. Votes: 3
Michael VanderbylI'm a bit of a design enthusiast, and like spending time with my girlfriend and mates. Votes: 3
Nick D'AloisioYou can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously. Votes: 3
Wim CrouwelI wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself. Votes: 3
Ursula AndressThe roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves. Votes: 3
Wally LambThere is no limit to beauty, no saturation point in design, no end to the material..... Votes: 3
Salvatore FerragamoWorking within the constraints of a problem is part of the fun and challenge of design. Votes: 3
Ellen LuptonTo err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats. Votes: 3
Henry SpencerWhatever you design[/make/build], use it to raise the expectations of what can be achieved Votes: 3
Paula ScherThe best of life is the exercise of ingenuity-in design, in finance, in flying, in business. Votes: 3
Bill LearDesign principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in. Votes: 3
Alan CooperA design remedy that prevents bugs is always preferable to a test method that discovers them. Votes: 3
Boris BeizerYou cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people. Votes: 3
Dieter RamsDon't design your back yard from the outside looking in. Design from your window looking out. Votes: 3
Janet MacunovichIt is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution. Votes: 3
George Edmund StreetThe upward thrust of evolution as part of the design becomes something to preserve and revere. Votes: 3
Roger Wolcott SperryVery often design is the most immediate way of defining what products become in people's minds. Votes: 3
Jonathan IveIt is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design. Votes: 3
Robert J. SawyerOnce you eliminate quality as a requirement, the entire design process becomes a whole lot easier. Votes: 3
Jared SpoolGive ordinary people the right tools, and they will design and build the most extraordinary things. Votes: 3
Neil GershenfeldGarden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens. Votes: 3
Tom TurnerArt has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus. Votes: 3
David HockneyWhen you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first! Votes: 3
Donald Wills DouglasWhen you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first! Votes: 3
Donald Wills Douglas, Sr.I wanted to design a chair which looked like a shrub pruned to look like a chair. Votes: 3
Richard SchultzIf we had no bias, if we had no preconceptions, what kind of forms could we design? Votes: 3
Michael HansmeyerI can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it. Votes: 3
Rachel RoyBooks are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look. Votes: 3
Trent ReznorFor me, if I can design beautiful things that have the price be lower, I am thrilled. Votes: 3
Tory BurchI'd love to design stuff that I'd like to wear and that other people could wear, too. Votes: 3
Dionne BromfieldWhen I direct I try to keep it a unique design of my own. Naturally you're influenced. Votes: 3
Anthony HopkinsIt's never too late to get a new design, and if you wanna compete you gotta visualize. Votes: 3
Ray DaviesI was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting. Votes: 3
Jim HensonI cannot force a design; I do not see this process as being under my conscious control. Votes: 3
Maya LinTo design a home is to design happiness, to create for ourselves a little piece of joy. Votes: 3
Naomi CleaverWe will have to decide today whether we will design the future or resign ourselves to it. Votes: 3
Hubert H. HumphreyFor those whom God to ruin has design'd, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind. Votes: 3
John DrydenShould not the role of design be to reconnect human beings with their space on their land? Votes: 3
Dan KileyAnd that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind. Votes: 3
John DrydenCriticism per se does not worry me. I've always solicited it as part of the design process. Votes: 3
Rem KoolhaasTeachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us. Votes: 3
Andy HargreavesReaders always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books. Votes: 3
Donald A. NormanThe most important job of an entrepreneur is to design the business before there is a business. Votes: 3
Robert KiyosakiWhen we think about what might go wrong, we're more likely to design something that goes right. Votes: 3
Seth GodinIf an artist comes intuitively from the point of design, notan - lightness/darkness - is natural. Votes: 3
Sara GennThe market may never coalesce around one basic design, or even around two or three dominant devices. Votes: 3
Tom PetersI want to be a woman of focus. I don't want to live by default, but by design. Votes: 3
Linda DillowI am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design. Votes: 3
Josh BillingsA person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life. Votes: 3
Charlie ByrdIt is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake. Votes: 3
JuniusGod always gave us light in our doubts, when we had no other design but to please Him. Votes: 3
Brother LawrenceWe are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box. Votes: 3
Michael BeheI mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response. Votes: 3
Liz PhairThe basic principal of recursive design is to make the parts have the same power as the whole. Votes: 3
Bob BartonThe tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible. Votes: 3
Dorothea DixArchitecture is about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea. Votes: 3
Lebbeus WoodsI can't stop pointing to the beauty. Every moment and place says, 'Put this design in your carpet! Votes: 3
RumiAlthough the rumors are of Apple doing an iWatch, I think that design idea is actually too limited. Votes: 3
Tim BajarinThe first thing one learns about typography & type design is that these rules are made to be broken. Votes: 3
Jeffery KeedyI need a new unit to sample and hold, but not an angry one, a new design, new design. Votes: 3
Neil YoungIt is to beoted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it. Votes: 3
Richard SteeleI don't design clothes for the Queen, but for the people who wave at her as she goes by. Votes: 3
Willi SmithApplying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor Votes: 3
Theodore ParkerMen may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design. Votes: 3
Francois de La RochefoucauldJust how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is 'on paper.' Votes: 3
Alan CooperAs far as ideas about book design: I have plenty. But I also try and let people do their jobs. Votes: 3
Jesse BallThe design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer. Votes: 3
John SteinbeckIt was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this Votes: 3
Michael GravesIt takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years. Votes: 3
Ross PerotI always want to design a frame thatâs open to everyone. I donât see art as a secret code. Votes: 3
Ai WeiweiInclusive Design can bring together commercial and social benefits
Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of NorwayDesign has allowed us to stand out; to look different and show that difference boldy.
Joseph D MansuetoDesign is the only thing that differentiates one product from another in the marketplace.
Norio OhgaThe three foundations of judgement: Bold Design, Constant Practice, and Frequent Mistakes.
John MasefieldGenerally people are more impressed with the services and the comfort issues than the design.
Frank GehryDesign isn't just about making things beautiful; it's also about making things work beautifully.
Roger MartinDesign is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.
Jonathan IveDesign is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.
Chip KiddIntelligent Design opens the whole possibility of us being created in the image of a benevolent God.
William A. DembskiI've come up through art school, through painting, through graphic design, through advertising, through TV commercials and music video. I've designed books, built billboards, matchbooks, corporate identities. I continuously paint, I've done conceptual art pictures. Votes: 2 Tony Kaye
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. Votes: 3 Tadao Ando
I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention. Votes: 3 Ettore Sottsass
I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary. Votes: 1 Jonathan Mayhew
I used to do design before I was actually rapping. I went to art and design high school. Votes: 4 ASAP Ferg
The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring. Votes: 4 Paul Rand
It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion. Votes: 1 Andrew Wyeth
When I'm doing kitchen planning as well as bathroom design, I try to walk through the day with the homeowner. If we're talking about a kitchen, it will be: So, we are walking in with the groceries. When we are taking them out of the car, where will they go? What is the distance to fridge, to pantry? Votes: 3 Candice Olson
I'm looking for best practices constantly. Apple has beautiful design, beautiful product, incredibly functional. But mostly it's about picking product, getting behind it, marketing it and introducing it to a customer. What they've done just inspires me. Votes: 4 Millard Drexler
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. Votes: 1 Louis Kahn
All I really want is a three-room house. The home I have designed at my new farm in Bedford, New York, is a three-room house: bedroom on top, living room in the middle, and kitchen on the ground. Votes: 1 Martha Stewart
The best design tool is a long eraser with a pencil at one end. Votes: 3 Marty Neumeier
I am extremely involved in the design process of both my brands, Winter Kate and House of Harlow 1960. Votes: 1 Nicole Richie
Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it. Votes: 1 James Dyson
By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism was widely accepted and made classical motifs permissible in high-style building design for the first time in decades. Votes: 3 Martin Filler
Perhaps I'd like to design cars, but I don't think I'd be much good at it. Votes: 3 Jonathan Ive
People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it. Votes: 1 Arne Jacobsen
I took a Logo programming class in fifth grade. Logo is a language specifically designed for the classroom environment. It was basically doodling through words. Votes: 1 Gene Luen Yang
They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese. Votes: 3 Christian Lacroix
Design is a field of concern, response, and enquiry as often as decision and consequence... it is convenient to group design into three simple categories, though the distinctions are in no way absolute, nor are they always so described: product design (things), environment design (places) and communication design (messages). Votes: 3 Norman Potter
Follow your dreams wherever they lead you and pay for those dreams with good jobs in software programming and computer design! Votes: 3 Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I have worked with some of the most amazing costume designers in the world. Votes: 4 Gillian Armstrong
Marc Jacobs is full of creative people and Louis Vuitton is again a name on the door, a name that has existed for many years but I'm a collaborator there and I bring in other people, other artists and I work with a great creative design team. Votes: 4 Marc Jacobs
It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman class will not attend college, but to assign a particular child to a curriculum designed for that 70 percent closes off for that child the opportunity to attend college. Votes: 3 James S. Coleman
People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train. Votes: 4 Marc Newson
I have to perfect my beard every morning and it takes a long time. I think a lot of musicians are into graphic design and art. I decided to be a little bit of an artist on my face. Votes: 3 Craig David
Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people. Votes: 1 Thomas J. Watson
Above all, John Galliano menswear is all about good design. And men have been short-changed by good design for too long. Votes: 1 John Galliano
Things like anatomy and drawing and design and color had pretty much been drop-kicked out of the curriculum in the '70s, when I was studying art, in favor of abstraction and minimalism. Votes: 3 David Small
I think a lot of times people design restaurants with flash in mind. I think you should design restaurants with function in mind. Make sure it's functional and works with what you're trying to accomplish. Design can come later. Votes: 1 Bobby Flay
A part of my kind of design and inspiration ethos is that I carry around a leather notebook and I sketch in it, doodle in it, write notes in it, and I put pictures in it. Votes: 3 John Varvatos
I'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life. Votes: 2 Drew Barrymore
There is not necessarily a good reason why a regulator should have to be involved in product design and marketing for rich and sophisticated investors. We recommend that such investors should be able to sign a piece of paper, which allows them to go ahead and buy unregulated products at their own risk. Votes: 3 John Redwood
Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature. Votes: 1 Roberto Cavalli
The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them. Votes: 1 Jean Cocteau
After doing some research with my agent, we found out Klipsch was an official Colts partner, and they were based in Indianapolis, which only added to my esteem for the company. I also have a passion for design and technology that developed while I was at Stanford and appreciate the quality of Klipsch's speakers and headphones. Votes: 5 Andrew Luck
Here is the cosmological proof of the existence of God - the design argument of Paley - updated and refurbished. The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design. Take your choice: blind chance that requires multitudes of universes or design that requires only one.... Many scientists, when they admit their views, incline toward the teleological or design argument. Votes: 3 Edward Robert Harrison
Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection. Votes: 3 Richard Dawkins
I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes. I think I'd throw myself into whatever I'm doing now. It's not about abandoning what I was doing before, or giving up. It's about knowing that if I die tomorrow, I lived the way I wanted to. Votes: 2 Ayumi Hamasaki
Some architects think of clients only as sources of work and income but most good architecture is in fact the result of successful design collaboration between a talented architect and an enlightened, motivated client. Votes: 3 Roger K. Lewis
The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have. Votes: 3 Tadao Ando
The K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple, Stupid) principle was pounded into my head in school and I still follow it today in most of my designs. I know that my most successful efforts are the simplest. I always find myself trying to subtract detail from design concepts in an attempt to distill the idea down to the most basic communication tool. Votes: 3 Jeff Fisher
The details are not the details. They make the design. Votes: 1 Charles Eames
If a budget is designed to show our values, it's clear where the majority stands: against opportunity, against education, and against America's hard-working, tax-paying middle class. Votes: 1 Ellen Tauscher
There's good movies and there's bad movies. The genres are never dead, it's just about how to apply them and articulate them and execute them - the story, the quality of the writing, the acting, the design elements, the directorial execution - all these things make it what it is. Votes: 3 Andy Garcia
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors. Votes: 2 George Santayana
I love every period in design history. Even the ugly ones. Votes: 3 Catherine Martin
The exposure I have had to beautiful materials across the world, from Japan to Italy, enables me to pull design ideas together. This, combined with years of historical research, has created a great fountain of ideas for me. Votes: 4 Colleen Atwood
What we're looking at is God's design, nature's template, and using that as a pattern to cut around and lay it down on a domestic model to duplicate that pattern that we see in nature. Votes: 3 Joel Salatin
Being in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS. Votes: 3 Douglas Wilson
I took a Logo programming class in fifth grade. Logo is a language specifically designed for the classroom environment. It was basically doodling through words. Votes: 1 Gene Luen Yang
The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves. Votes: 2 Wally Lamb
The trouble begins with a design philosophy that equates 'more options' with 'greater freedom.' Votes: 3 Brian Eno
Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail. Votes: 3 Robert Shea
In the design process, there's a need to be culturally comprehensive. Votes: 4 Dries van Noten
I specialise in taking teams of designers, psychologists, usability experts, sociologists and ethnographers into the field. It's called 'corporate anthropology,' but personally I'm more comfortable with 'design research,' because I'm not an anthropologist by training. Votes: 3 Jan Chipchase
The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it. Votes: 3 Steve Jobs
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. Votes: 3 Eric Maskin
The main tenet of design thinking is empathy for the people you're trying to design for. Leadership is exactly the same thing - building empathy for the people that you're entrusted to help. Votes: 4 David M. Kelley
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. Votes: 2 Jim Rohn
Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good. Votes: 2 Clement Mok
In design as in life, smart can also mean wise, kind, inspiring - and cost-effective. And that has a charm all its own. Votes: 1 Nancy Gibbs
Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice. Votes: 1 Harold E. Varmus
My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte. Votes: 3 Bobby Seale
Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design. Votes: 3 Christopher Alexander
I might want to open a hotel and design all the rooms. Or maybe a museum that lets me curate all the events. Votes: 1 Theophilus London
I knew a lot about product design before coming to Apple, but I didn't understand a lot about consumer experience design, which is really Apple's forte. Votes: 4 Tony Fadell
The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation. Votes: 3 Michelle Obama
I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff. Votes: 3 Prabal Gurung
It is very important to lead the field and innovate in game design. Votes: 5 John Romero
From 50 centuries, we can learn about the close relationship between garden design and urban design, because both arts involve the composition of buildings with paving, landform, water, vegetation and climate. Votes: 3 Tom Turner
Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful. Votes: 2 Dieter Rams
Cycling keeps me lean and I need to stay in shape, especially as I still like eating chocolate and ice-cream! I like to go mountain biking too. Running is also good; it's what we were designed to do as humans, so it comes naturally. Votes: 1 Mark Webber
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. Votes: 3 Stephen Hawking
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors. Votes: 4 George Santayana
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. Votes: 6 Miguel de Cervantes
The urgency for reducing climate emissions is too great. We must take our collective experience and use it toward making green design a part of all design. Votes: 3 Ian Shapiro
My wedding was at home, so I didn't really want to wear a veil in my house. Instead I wore a lot of diamond hair clips. They were brooches, actually, designed by Lorraine Schwartz. Votes: 1 Georgina Chapman
My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture. Votes: 4 Taylor Schilling
Chaos Magick can be understood as the discovery and application of effective techniques and scripts to maximize human design for living. Votes: 4 Phil Hine
I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing. Votes: 3 Zaha Hadid
Apple's Industrial Design team is harder to get into than the Illuminati, and part of the reason is because no one leaves. In the last 15 years, not one of the 18 designers has ditched Apple for greener pastures. Votes: 3 Jonathan Ive
I feel that every day, all of us now are being blasted by information design. It's being poured into our eyes through the Web, and we're all visualizers now; we're all demanding a visual aspect to our information. There's something almost quite magical about visual information. It's effortless; it literally pours in. Votes: 3 David McCandless
From a design perspective, the U.S. has always been a great source of inspiration for me. Votes: 1 Brunello Cucinelli
How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design? Votes: 6 Kinky Friedman
Problems with visual design can turn users off so quickly that they never discover all the smart choices you made with navigation or interaction design. Votes: 3 Jesse James Garrett
I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself. Votes: 6 Ursula Andress
Aficionados of Slow design and Slow fashion use ethical and green materials to make objects - furniture, clothes, jewellery - that lift the spirit and last a lifetime rather than one catwalk season. Votes: 1 Carl Honore
My dad was a jingle writer, and my mom was a jewelry designer and musician. Votes: 3 Reeve Carney
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. Votes: 2 Steve Jobs
When I'm doing kitchen planning as well as bathroom design, I try to walk through the day with the homeowner. If we're talking about a kitchen, it will be: So, we are walking in with the groceries. When we are taking them out of the car, where will they go? What is the distance to fridge, to pantry? Votes: 1 Candice Olson
You need to be naive enough to do things differently. No big publishing house would have allowed us to co-create a fully designed, four color business book in landscape format - because it was contrary to the publishing industry logic. However, we thought of Business Model Generation as a product, not just a book - similar to Apple products. Votes: 2 Alexander Osterwalder
Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility. Votes: 3 Tim Ferriss
By appreciating the darkness when you design the light, you create much more interesting environments that truly enhance our lives. Votes: 1 Rogier van der Heide
I pay two full-time assistants in my studio, plus consultants who are architects, engineers, and landscape architects, as well as lighting designers. Votes: 3 Janet Echelman
I love to cook. And I love food. I'd probably work with animals. Interior design, I'm very into that. Votes: 3 Gloria Votsis
Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones. Votes: 1 Mike Fitzpatrick
When you say 'design,' everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it's an emotive word. Everybody thinks it's how something looks, whereas for me, design is pretty much everything. Votes: 1 James Dyson
My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte. Votes: 3 Bobby Seale
Each season I strive to design a forward-thinking and effortless collection with a very clean minimalist aesthetic. Votes: 1 Francisco Costa
It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe. Votes: 3 Jil Sander
I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design. Votes: 4 Malorie Blackman
About half of all design patterns out there [...] appear to be ways take perfectly natural design ideas and twist them to fit into someones static type system: recipes for pounding square pegs into round holes Votes: 3 Steve Yegge
Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet. Votes: 4 Jack Herer
I read a newspaper article in May 1984 which predicted that syringes would one day be a major cause of the transmission of HIV. It was what I had been waiting for - a project that had a lot of the things that I liked: problem-solving, product design, campaigning, and being a bit of a big mouth pain-in-the-bum. Votes: 1 Marc Koska
The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design. Votes: 1 Elon Musk
An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it. Votes: 1 Dee Hock
Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization. Votes: 4 Ben Horowitz
The State of the Union is less written than it is designed, structured and organized around applause prompts and camera cues. Votes: 1 Alex Pareene
I've never had anyone define purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live according to original design. Votes: 3 Josh McDowell
More and more products are coming out in fiercely protective packaging designed to prevent consumers from consuming them. These days you have to open almost every consumer item by gnawing on the packaging. Votes: 3 Dave Barry
People are only concerned about the next party, meeting up for casual sex, finding a job as a Web page designer, or getting a new apartment. Votes: 3 John C. Dvorak
I'm going to design again, but I come back when it's the right project, so I keep my passion for it intact. Votes: 1 Hedi Slimane
What we're looking at is God's design, nature's template, and using that as a pattern to cut around and lay it down on a domestic model to duplicate that pattern that we see in nature. Votes: 1 Joel Salatin
Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society? Votes: 2 Robert Shea
With the Larry Bertlemann portrait, I started with a photograph that I could use for it. I built the drawing's identity to serve as a graphic identity. After a number of sketches, I went into my own abstract vernacular of drawn lines and shapes to create the composition for the poster design. Votes: 3 John Van Hamersveld
I had given a presentation on design and happiness for quite a long while at design conferences. I had found thinking about the topic helpful for my own practice, as it forced me to consider the fundamentals, and the feedback from the audience was always enthusiastic. Votes: 1 Stefan Sagmeister
The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy. Votes: 1 Noam Chomsky
So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed. Votes: 6 Debi Thomas
I fervently believe in research as a necessity for good design, and I teach it that way. Votes: 1 Brenda Laurel
Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical. Votes: 1 Victor Papanek
Good restaurant design is about achieving equilibrium between the food, service, and design - in effect, telling a complete story. Votes: 5 David Rockwell
They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese. Votes: 1 Christian Lacroix
I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression. Votes: 1 John Malkovich
Whatever the explanation, it's perfectly obvious that our educational system has nothing to do with education: it's a babysitting service designed to replicate the worst qualities of the parents. Votes: 3 Stephen R. Donaldson
Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. Votes: 1 Paul Rand
The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them. Votes: 1 Jean Cocteau
There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy. Votes: 7 John Baldacci
For me, the sound design and the musical score is a big part of what makes scary movies work. Votes: 7 James Wan
It turns out it's not rocket science to design a sacred space. Votes: 2 Greg Lynn
For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme. Votes: 5 Christian Lacroix
I worked in fashion, but I worked more in the sales side of fashion than in design. I was an assistant buyer for a department store back in the '70s and the early years of Saint Laurent. And I used to have a lot of private clients that I bought for. Votes: 1 Colleen Atwood
After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared. Votes: 1 Arthur Erickson
Hunts Point Revival's reuse of the existing structure as part of the new development was conceptually bold and challenging. Overall, the project contained a good blend of creative sustainable design elements. The solar room for heating and ventilation was particularly creative and convincing. Votes: 3 Edward Mazria
My father liked doing carpentry work, construction work, in the summer vacation. And so my mother designed a cabin, a log cabin, like a - it was like a Swiss chalet. I was twelve years old, and my father and I built it on a rocky point peninsula out into Lake Superior. Votes: 1 John Lautner
I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process. Votes: 1 Francisco Costa
To be all we are designed to be, we must consult the great designer -- consistently. Votes: 3 Terry Crouson
At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design. Votes: 3 Jim Henson
The profusion of fonts is one more product of the digital revolution. Beginning in the mid-'80s and accelerating in the 1990s, type design weathered the sort of radical, technology-driven transformation that other creative industries, including music, publishing, and movies, now face. Votes: 3 Virginia Postrel
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. Votes: 3 Vera Wang
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. Votes: 3 Philip Schaff
I do quite like Gehry's Guggenheim. But where in Bilbao it's seen as an outgrowth of years of investment in urban design and engineering, in Britain it's seen as the catalyst for urban regeneration rather than the icing on the cake. Votes: 8 David Chipperfield
Ultimately, it's possible that social media platforms will be designed as templates that the users themselves customize in terms of the best way to express their community and experience of life, and brands will have to simply follow suit. Votes: 1 Simon Mainwaring
A general principle for all user interface design is to go through all of your design elements and remove them one at a time. Votes: 3 Jakob Nielsen
Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair. Votes: 4 David Crane
The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem Votes: 3 Marcel Duchamp