Design Quotes

In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone.

A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.

First understand infinity then you will understand God and how evolution is intelligent design.

Holland is very good at avant garde, probably due to the Dutch character. Good at design. Experimentation sometimes works here very well.

We still seek to solve conflicts with 'judgement' instead of designing the way forwards.

We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.

If your words aren't truthful, the finest optically letter-spaced typography won't help.

Clutter is not an attribute of information, clutter is a failure of design...fix the design rather than stripping all the detail out of the map.

Allowing artist-illustrators to control the design and content of statistical graphics is almost like allowing typographers to control the content, style, and editing of prose.

Life's cares are comforts; such by Heav'n design'd; He that hath none must make them, or be wretched.

You have to write scenes and design scenes that are scary and horrific, but that are also watchable. I didn't want people to just feel like they got punched in the stomach.

There's always time to do things that you're passionate about. ... If my name helps get something out there that I believe in then I am going to produce it. ... Design is really my true love.

I love furniture. And I thought, why are we not seeing who's making the cool new coffee table and these new designs that come out?

To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.

A book has to dig through the wounds, more, it has cause a new one, a book it has to be dangerous.

C is not clean – the language has many gotchas and traps, and although its semantics are simple in some sense, it is not any cleaner than the assembly-language design it is based on.

The Net is not a single home. Rather, it's an environment where thousands of small homes and communities can form and define and design themselves.

And the best films feel like a fist punching you in the solar plexus and all elements of the filmmaking process - the acting, the design, the cinematography, the music, is all working to one end.

Contentment: The smother of invention.

My designs are meant to attract the hand as well as the eye.

I think with my hands. I design things to be touched-not for a museum. A piece is ready when it has the shape of something to cherish.

When I design something, I think of it as a gift to somebody else.

Men have no concept of how to design things for the home. Women should design the things they use.

Design bugs are often subtle and occur by evolution with early assumptions being forgotten as new features or uses are added to systems.

I don't look at a lot of design. I try to stay focused on making sculptural art pieces and somehow translating them into design.

When a customer receives a dish, they get food and design at the same time.

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design.

The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.

I don't really play overseas stuff. I'm a bit of a dinosaur in that way. You gonna improve on a Les Paul or Fender Stratocaster? Those are perfect designs, and there is nothing to add really.

Even when I was just designing T-shirts people really gravitated to them.

I design genetic algorithms, neural network and artificial intelligence systems.

Follow your dreams wherever they lead you and pay for those dreams with good jobs in software programming and computer design!

Innocence does not protect you from the evil designs of others.

Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

Because we [people] have an intellect, part of what we do is try to understand the "intelligent design." Everything we don't know is "intelligent design." Everything we do know is science.

I have been collecting pictures of airport carpets since the early 2000s because I am fascinated by their role as the world's largest interior visual design medium.

An image can only be one element in constructing a sequence of understanding.

Designing came to me. I didn't have to move.

I design for a woman who is on the go. Women are busier than ever, and I wanted to design a collection that can go from day to night and be fashionable. Sometimes I wear three outfits in one day.

Trying to find my way around the Rayburn building is always a challenge. Combining my poor sense of direction with a confusing design is not good.

Greening school design provides an extraordinarily cost-effective way to enhance student learning, reduce health and operational costs and, ultimately, increase school quality and competitiveness.

I never wanted to be a fashion designer, although there is a book somewhere of fashion design I did for a collection when I was seven years old. I always wanted to be an actor.

I needed to understand this random bad bit of luck as part of a bigger design. Otherwise I was suffering meaninglessly. This made the suffering a lot worse.

For me, writing Bridget's [Jones] stories is an instinctive, organic thing, which tends to happen more by accident than design.

I would design any vehicle, but probably least likely... a minivan.

I have not the most definite designs on the future.

I have no designs on society, or nature, or God. I am simply what I am, or I begin to be that. I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future. I love to live.

Misery, depression, elation all mine, refine confinement all my design.

To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats.