Design Quotes

Chaos Magick can be understood as the discovery and application of effective techniques and scripts to maximize human design for living.

The ultimate design of the Mysteries ... was to lead us back to the principles from which we descended, ... a perfect enjoyment of intellectual [spiritual] good.

There is one universal truth: All women, all over the world, want to look beautiful. That is always the theme of my designs.

Well, you didn't design your beard too well, did you?

Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade- all the threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design.

I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design.

The only similarity between the car and the human body is that if something is seriously wrong with the design of the former you can send it back to its maker.

Design cannot precede evolution and therefore cannot underlie the universe.

If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support.

It is inappropriate (to allow parents) to design the curriculum and to run the school.

If you write your own tools, you can sort of see new things, design new things.

Design isn't just how it looks. It's how it works.

Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over time.

I used to have a gun made every month; I would get another pistol made that I would design. I'm very into the military and police stuff like that.

I wish Peeta were here to hold me, until I remember I'm not supposed to wish that anymore. I have chosen Gale and the rebellion, and a future with Peeta is the Capitol's design, not mine.

The heart knows today what the mind will learn tomorrow.

In companies whose wealth is intellectual capital, networks, rather than hierarchies, are the right organizational design.

Etch out the future on your own design.

Any fool can make soap. It takes a clever man to sell it.

I'm not designing clothes for someone who is doing lines of coke off the table, like I was when I was at Gucci and Saint Laurent

The way a dancer can bring the crowd to its feet with a drawn-out, well-executed pirouette is the excitement I wanted to capture with this design.

I started at the very highest level so the upper end is something I know very well. I know it instinctively. But all the years I was designing, it frustrated me that I could reach so few women.

I definitely feel that we cannot do the fantastic things based on the real, unless we first know the real.

Strange priests are they who never straightly walk But all aslant through sideways passage stalk Who never seek their goals in forward lines But move askew as fraught with sly designs

I don't design clothes for the Queen, but for the people who wave at her as she goes by.

I am working right at both the levels- with the most wealthy clients in the world, but also the poorest. I spend half my time designing for people that have nothing.

Because the eye has seen, thoughts are structured upon images and not upon ideas.

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

There is no way to find the best design except to try out as many designs as possible and discard the failures.

A product which is unceremoniously wasted to landfill at end of life surely can't be considered good design!

...I know good design when I fail to trip over it.

Making good design is easy. It's polishing the half-assed stuff that takes time.

Any design, any city, any kind of craziness or tragedy, it all comes from a long time of preparation.

Baseball is part of America's plot, part of America's mysterious, underlying design-the plot in which we all conspire and collude, the plot of the story of our national life.

To create an interior, the designer must develop an overall concept and stick to it.

Styling is designing for obsolescence.

Design implies a sense of mapping something out and then you follow the plan.

Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us.

Design isn't Art. It's not about creating beautiful or thought-provoking things for the sake of it. Design is a discipline creating communication with a purpose.

Clients have no trouble paying $5,800 for an hour in a Gulfstream corporate jet or $425 for a month of parking. But God forbid they spend $3 per on a glossy annual report.

Systems programmers are the high priests of a low cult.

Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death.

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our enemy.

I cannot see ... evidence of design and beneficence ... There seems to me too much misery in the world.

What we remember most about rooms we like is the 'atmosphere.'

All the necessary elements of a room should not arrive on installation day. Room should always be left for the things we will acquire...the objects we cannot live without.

If I was a fashion designer just following trends or designing for celebrities, I would not be fulfilled.

The next time you're caught in a room full of smart people doing something dumb (like trying to anticipate what your users will do), tune them out, flip open your laptop, and start prototyping.

No man commits evil for the sake of it; even the Devil himself has some farther design in sinning, than barely the wicked part of it.

The basic Roman ruin design is a pile of rocks with a little plaque saying "Roman Ruins" and a group of tourists frowning at it and wishing they were back at the hotel bar.