Design Quotes

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'.

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

Men who would letterspace lower case would shag sheep.

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.

Sustainability is now a big baggy sack in which people throw all kinds of old ideas, hot air and dodgy activities in order to be able to greenwash their products and feel good.

I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall.

At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.

It is cheaper to pay mathematicians and computer scientists to design algorithms that will eliminate webspamming, rather than to pay lawyers to do lawsuits.

The thing that's important is not something called design; it's how you live, its life itself. Design really comes from that. You cannot separate what you do from your life.

Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time.

The vast majority of the shuttle program was a success. We learned so much about how a reusable spacecraft interacts with its environment, how it ages-and what to design next time.

I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age.

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

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

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Work for money, design for love.

True simplicity is, well, you just keep on going and going until you get to the point where you go... Yeah, well, of course.

If you watched companies such as Sony and Samsung grow, they focused first on features and then on industrial design, which made their products look and feel better.

There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.

Intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.

If we had no bias, if we had no preconceptions, what kind of forms could we design?

I'm always conscious of the context, the history, the specific environment of anything that I design and what it is going to be operating within.

Grid systems in graphic design

Rules are what the artist breaks; the memorable never emerged from a formula.

Usually, when we talk about creativity, it's about self-expression, which is great, but for work to be art or design, there has to be someone on the other end. The audience makes the work come alive.

Up to a point, it is better to just let the snags [bugs] be there than to spend such time in design that there are none.

Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.

My wish is that we design the future of learning. We don't want to be spare parts for a great human computer.

The word design is everything and nothing. The design and the product itself are inseparable.

I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it?

My doodles and sketches are not the work of an academic engineer. They represent many years of design study in attempts to produce the best value for money in the field of small car design.

If you can design the physical space, the social space, and the information space together to enhance collaborative learning, then that whole milieu turns into a learning technology.

If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you would probably design something like a classroom.

In this branch of utopian real estate, architecture is no longer the art of designing buildings so much as the brutal skyward extrusion of whatever site the developer has managed to assemble.

It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.

With all the challenges in the housing market, it's clear we need a new vision for the way we design our homes, our communities-and even our lives.

Design the life you want to live.

Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

Practice design, Not Decoration: Don't just make pretty talking points. Instead, display information in a way that makes complex information clear.

I am working on a dress sock line of funky, colorful, cool designs.

If our field is "to advance", we must - without displacing creativity and aesthetics - make sure our terminology is clear.

Where focus goes, energy flows. And if you don't take the time to focus on what matters, then you're living a life of someone else's design.

Decoration is just make-up for the wrinkles of the idea.

A well-designed and humane interface does not have to be split into beginner and expert subsystems.

The most important job of an entrepreneur is to design the business before there is a business.

Creativity is to think more efficiently.

The worst misstep one can make in design is to solve the wrong problem.