Design Quotes

In a way, my design works as much because the belt is comfortable for the user as it does because it is safer.

Not all design is for the general good.

Good design isn't about making decisions for your users, it's about making those decisions irrelevant.

I would bring Patti [Smith ] in to the editing room [working on the Dream of Life] and say, "This is a great moment for a voiceover, or a poem," and then we'd bring in some sound design.

Us visual thinkers like me, be good at things like industrial design, graphics, art, those kind of jobs.

If you jump, you best jump far.

Control, edit and distill.

It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.

Beauty is my heritage and my core. But my passion is design for the spaces where we live and work.

Many people are going to use [Beijing National Stadium], which makes it more meaningful. If we don't design it, somebody else has to design it.

Design is about discipline and reality, not about fantasy beyond reality.

We're all collectors by nature. But if you're talking about an orderly life, there has to be a stop sign somewhere. Building a collection requires a strong constitution and the ability to resist.

You cannot make a modern apartment out of a traditional space.

A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very novelty tends to make it illegible, at any rate to begin with.

Usually when you start the characters, the first thing is the script. Your design work is about telling the story. It's later that casting comes into play, but it's a huge component.

Developmental scientists like me explore the basic science of learning by designing controlled experiments.

Science only answers 'How?' Religion only answers 'Why?' The two combined is the true design, So respect to God cause He drew the lines.

Alberta funds almost all its schools and districts to design and evaluate their own innovations. Teachers are the drivers of change, not the driven.

I did not design this game; I did not name the stakes. I just happen to like apples; and I am not afraid of snakes.

In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.

When I direct I try to keep it a unique design of my own. Naturally you're influenced.

Your divine design dictates your future direction.

When designing a collection that is traditional, that has one specific sort of garment like a white dress, I think just being constantly attuned to trends really help.

Your first try will be wrong. Budget and design for it.

A goal is the basic unit of life design.

It was an effort to include intelligent design and treat it as science, disparaging evolution along the way. That will not stand.

I haven't done any building designs since the Loaf House.

O Lazy bones! Dost thou think God would have given thee arms and legs, if he had not design'd thou should'st use them?

Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing.

That we don't design agriculture to be sustainable is totally eerie. We design it to be a disaster, and of course, we get a disaster.

I'd dropped out of college to start design thing.

Design is a career where you learn creative decision making.

Nature doesn't see things through the prism of good or bad. It rewards efficiency. That is the simplicity of evolution, matching design to environment.

The basic principal of recursive design is to make the parts have the same power as the whole.

I was attracted to things that combined art and science equally. I've always been equally interested in art design, science and engineering.

Luck is the residue of opportunity and design.

Luck is a residue of design.

Even though designing your own show, that's great, I am nothing without the support around me.

There are cases where you design something that looks good on paper and there's only one small part of it that's fun. You have to focus on that and throw the rest away.

The trouble begins with a design philosophy that equates 'more options' with 'greater freedom.'

Architecture is a hypothesis about the future that holds that subsequent change will be confined to that part of the design space encompassed by that architecture.

We're at a moment where people are rediscovering their ability to design, to create (engineer)and in essence, to become a true maker.

I've generally got a good eye for design and proportion.

I think if you are writing something that you are trying to design for someone else to like that is not necessarily you're demographic, it is a much harder road.

At various times over 20 years, I did preliminary designs for aircraft like the Stratolaunch. For that whole time I was encouraging us to do something that almost everyone else felt you could not do.

When we invest in the things that matter most to us, that are within God's unique design for each of us, I believe we will achieve a sense of balance in our lives.

Everything that I do has a certain mechanical logic to it, and follows my definition of design--which is function with cultural content.

There is in this Universe much of what seems to be design.

I love every period in design history. Even the ugly ones.

I want to do television, film, music and designing. I want to do it all!