Design Quotes

Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.

Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.

I'm going to design the container and interior spaces. You bring your own stuff to it and make it your own.

You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society.

Conceptual integrity is the most important consideration in system design.

Software and hardware design is less different than software designers think, but more different than hardware designers think.

Consensus processes starve innovative design by eating the resource.

If we do not design policies to halt, and then reverse population growth, Nature by default will soon exact a most punishing solution

The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet.

What you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks - the form, the design, whatever word you want to use.

My publishers will make any kind of a beautiful book I design and send in to them, but ... For poetry they have less use than a rooster would have for skates.

Experience finds few of the scenes that lively hope designs.

What's being pushed is to have Darwinism critiqued, to teach there's a controversy. Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

Since the design of the movement is paramount, shape, for me, should have no significance.

Writing is not a series of strokes, but space, divided into characteristic shapes by strokes.

I love fashion as much as I love basketball! It is a great joy for me to express myself through designing my own collection.

Just like zillions of children, album covers educated and informed me, and certainly did I later transpose organically, rather than by intent, those principles both in fashion design and photography.

His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.

The low desire, the base design That makes another's virtues less.

My designs and labors and aspirations are my only friends.

The tragedy of our time is that we've got it backwards, we've learned to love techniques and use people.

If you take away the fancy graphics of today's games, most of the time you're left with a shell of a game that has been done to death a million times.

It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.

A man fashions ill for himself who fashions ill for another, and the ill design is most ill for the designer.

The ill design is most ill for the designer.

You may include things you believe to be crucial in a design, but those elements are often only crucial to you.

Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

You can never design the best city, but you can design the best city you know how to design at this time.

There's no way to design a society that's optimal or utopian. It's better than the one that was. Systems always undergo change.

Users are not designers.

I do make my own brushes and have done so for many years. I'm constantly refining the designs, trying new materials, re-configuring other brushes - all in my never-ending quest for the perfect brush.

Design is a form of competitive advantage. People tend to think of design as good art, good visual language, which it absolutely has to be. But it's also about the ability to do systems thinking.

Dressing with style is akin to issuing a manifesto; dressing fashionably is like signing a petition.

This isn't a mass-produced...instrument. Mike Lull Custom Guitars makes each bass right here in the NW. Over 20 years of collaborating, designing, and building basses has gone into my model.

The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture.

Maybe the museum [of Arts and Design ]needs to follow the advice of its acronym and not be afraid to go a little M.A.D.

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.

It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe.

Writing code is not production, it's not always craftsmanship though it can be, it's design.

Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.

Always think of drawing, getting the forms realized, emphasizing the design.

Really great products, like @nest, have #design baked in from the beginning instead of slapped on at the end.

In the '70s and '80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science.

By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.

Very often design is the most immediate way of defining what products become in people's minds.

Different and new is relatively easy. Doing something thats genuinely better is very hard.

We say no to a lot of things so we can invest an incredible amount of care on what we do.

Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.

Apple's Jony Ive describes his "fanatical" approach to design in new interview

The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.