Design Quotes

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

Create something people want to share.

If you look after goodness and truth, beauty will take care of itself.

Cryptography shifts the balance of power from those with a monopoly on violence to those who comprehend mathematics and security design.

I started designing my handbags in my apartment and I had six samples made in satin-finished nylon. I displayed them at trade shows but they went unnoticed at first.

Think of the design process as involving first the generation of alternatives and then the testing of these alternatives against a whole array of requirements and restraints.

Styles come and go, design goes on forever: solving communication problems with new tools applied to the same old common sense.

And we [The Futurist artists] must invent dynamic designs to go with them and express them in equally dynamic shapes: triangles, cones, spirals, ellipses, circles, etc.

There is a verse [in the Koran] that says God swears by time. Anything you gain in life, you pay for with your time. Time is the most important thing that has been given to man.

I want people to understand that design is so much more than cute chairs - that it is first and foremost everything that is around us in our life.

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.

Put hot triggers in the path of motivated people.

Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth.

Graphic design is a popular art and a practical art, an applied art and an ancient art. Simply put, it is the art of visualizing ideas.

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.

Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.

Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.

A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape.

You don't build it for yourself. You know what the people want and you build it for them.

Sometimes there is simply no need to be either clever or original.

Good designers copy; great designers steal.

Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone

Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things.

Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure

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?

Architecture is about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea.

It should look as if it has always been like that, as if Nature had made it that way. That's good design.

Although I was once sharply critical of the argument to design, I have since come to see that, when correctly formatted, this argument constitutes a persuasive case for the existence of God.

An expert is someone who tells you why you can't do something.

Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.

My work is the embodiment of dreams in one form or another.

Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.

True interactivity is not about clicking on icons or downloading files, it's about encouraging communication.

If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare.

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.

When it comes to innovation, business has much to learn from design. The philosophy in design shops is, 'try it, prototype it, and improve it'.

Feeling creative produces great work in approximately the same way that "feeling like a doctor" makes you a gifted thoracic surgeon.

The fact that ACPI was designed by a group of monkeys high on LSD, and is some of the worst designs in the industry obviously makes running it at any point pretty damn ugly.

In restoring a house one must first realize its period, feel its personality and try to bring out its good points.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.

Simple design, intense content.

Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.

Men who would letterspace lower case would shag sheep.

Never do anything yourself that you can hire someone else to do, especially if they can do it better.

God doesn't reveal his grand design. He reveals Himself.

Design the life that you want to live.

Your culture is your brand.

Indeed, our designs become more ambitious as we see the new possibilities created by the technology of other industries.