Famous Quotes
- 'Design Star' was incredible, and I didn't think it could get any better, and then 'Color Splash' happened.
- David Bromstad on Design
- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
- Douglas Adams on Design
- A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
- Edith Head on Design
- A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
- Antoine De Saint-Exupery on Design
- A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.
- Niklaus Wirth on Design
- A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.
- Freeman Dyson on Design
- A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes - as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was.
- Jeffrey Kluger on Design
- A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.
- Steve Jobs on Design
- A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
- Jack Nicklaus on Design
- A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.
- Charlie Byrd on Design
- A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
- David Hume on Design
- About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
- Manolo Blahnik on Design
- Accessible design is good design.
- Steve Ballmer on Design
- Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.
- Sofia Coppola on Design
- Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actually.
- Yukihiro Matsumoto on Design
- 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.
- Arthur Erickson on Design
- After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either.
- Bjarne Stroustrup on Design
- 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 on Design
- After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them.
- L'Wren Scott on Design
- All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
- Philip Johnson on Design
- 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 on Design
- All those lessons that I've learned on the court, I have applied them to my life outside of the court in business, my company, called V Starr interiors, an interior design company, and EleVen, which I wear on court.
- Venus Williams on Design
- All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it.
- Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.
- Tom Peters on Design
- Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone.
- Donald Norman on Design
- Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
- Barbara Kruger on Design
- An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.
- Daniel J. Boorstin on Design
- And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.
- Thomas Keneally on Design
- And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight.
- Umberto Guidoni on Design
- And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole.
- Daniel Libeskind on Design
- Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.
- Cynthia Rowley on Design
- Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
- David Hockney on Design
- As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.
- Stockwell Day on Design
- As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design.
- Gianfranco Ferre on Design
- At our company, our Design and Construction Consulting Service Team not only helps eliminate the risks inherent in the construction process, they typically save our clients 5% - 10% on overall construction costs. They also help make sure projects come in on time.
- Roger Staubach on Design
- At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.
- Daniel Day-Lewis on Design
- 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.
- Jim Henson on Design
- Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.
- Edward Tufte on Design
- Being in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS.
- Douglas Wilson on Design
- Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to.
- Ethan Coen on Design
- Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications.
- Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.
- James Wolcott on Design
- Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
- William Butler Yeats on Design
- Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.
- James Dyson on Design
- But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.
- Niklaus Wirth on Design
- But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me.
- Marc Jacobs on Design
- But my point is that you design something in the end that precludes any unhealthy trading practices that are not going to serve your environmental or your economic objectives but now is not the time to do it.
- John Anderson on Design
- But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?
- Mary Astell on Design
- By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.
- John Tenniel on Design
- By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.
- Steven Chu on Design
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