Design Quotes

An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience.

London, with its monotonous and melancholy houses, seems like an inharmonious patchwork, as if pieced together without design. Yet it is lovable in its sprawling confusion.

If you stand for great service, low prices, superb quality, stylish design and environmental friendliness, you actually stand for nothing.

Go over and over your beads, paint weird designs on your forehead, wear your hear matted, long, and ostentatious, but when deep inside you there is a loaded gun, how can you have God?

The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually

The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question

I think design does evolve in a meaningful sense. I think if you look at design as a part of the continuum of communication, since even before Guttenberg.

Parents can be very influential in designing those little creepy-crawlers that jump around in your mind for the rest of your life. It's the fear of not being good enough.

So far, designing is the most exciting thing. Ive done I have a vision of what I want the clothes to look like in my mind and its fun to see it come alive on paper.

The "Be good" concept also comes up when we design our products. We want them to have positive social effects.

As a designer, you are flattered to see anyone in one of your designs, whether it's on a red carpet or passing by you in the market. It's this wonderful little high every time.

Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.

By God's design, I believe our hearts and minds are shaped by Story. It's how we learn. It's how we make sense of the world. Characters, situations, moral consequences are all around us.

It is absolutely the central theme in my design philosophy - that life is erotic, period. The female body is one of the most extraordinary designs ever done in this universe.

Cisco has not and does not design products for the purpose of political censorship.

The design of a temple depends on symmetry, the principles of which must be most carefully observed by the architect.

You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.

When we better understand the realities of these women's lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.

A lot of times, you design a logo to be timeless, but with something like the Olympics, timelessness is maybe not something you should be going for.

I say the Intelligent Design-evolution debate misses the point. It trivializes God and it trivializes science. The universe is like the hand of God. The world is God's body.

There are hundreds and hundreds of scientists, many of them holding Nobel Prizes, who believe in intelligent design.

To implement a true urban renaissance, you first need a Grand Design elaborated by strong leadership .

Clothes can be important. I am learning this. For instance, often when I design and I wonder what is the point, I think of someone having a bad time in their life.

I always feel like a woman designing for a woman. I know what you want to accentuate and what you want to hide.

In the end, color combinations come down to our personal preferences, which we must discover through observation and experiment.

The central activity of engineering, as distinguished from science, is the design of new devices, processes and systems.

Before you begin designing or buying anything, you need to get real and ask yourself: What do you really want to use this room for? What do you want to do in this room but can't now?

All design is the process of making experiences.

Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration.

Differential equations won't help you much in the design of aeroplanes - not yet, anyhow.

Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.

Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated.

Design is the only thing that differentiates one product from another in the marketplace.

Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.

I don't know if you know it, J.B., but you're the sort of fellow who causes hundreds to fall under suspicion when he's found stabbed in his library with a paper-knife of Oriental design.

Life is tough; thank God there's design.

Designers need to be mavericks, because the best way to design a successful object is to pretend that either it never existed or that people will be able to have a new behavior with it.

I consider video games a form of design that is amazingly important today and that is going to become even more important in the future, because it is a way we interact with machines and screens.

But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems.

I love math. I have little secret number tattoos everywhere. I design them.

I think test-driven design is great. But you can test all you want and if you don’t know how to approach the problem, you’re not going to get a solution.

Fiat has a lot going for it in terms of design, technology and efficiency.

This [the intelligent design movement] isn't really, and never has been, a debate about science, it's about religion and philosophy.

In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.

Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.

The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.

We are here for God's designs, not for our own

It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.

If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.

My dreams are my work. I design out of the things that I love.