Design Quotes

Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.

Similar to computer technology in the '60s, 3-D printing is a universal technology that has the potential to revolutionize our life by enabling individuals to design and manufacture things.

In the broad sense design means thinking about what the function or purpose of things or processes are, and translating that into action.

We can design things that learn, so you can grow an intelligence by creating an environment and creating things that just do it a million time faster than we do.

We will have to decide today whether we will design the future or resign ourselves to it.

The urgency for reducing climate emissions is too great. We must take our collective experience and use it toward making green design a part of all design.

My mother worked in fashion design and she used to show me all of these looks. She tried to get me to wear fitted jeans in high school. This is when big jeans were popping.

The hinge is distinctly different, so when you look at it carefully, you recognize that it is its own unique design.

Shall we keep our hands in our bosom, or stretch ourselves on our beds of laziness, while all the world about us is hard at work, in pursuing the designs of its creation?

A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author.

I was always fascinated by the infinite, strange and 'scandalous' ways that insects copulate.

Clarify your purpose. What is the why behind everything you do? When we know this in life or design it is very empowering and the path is clear.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again.

And, of course, I'm constantly energized by designing courses around the world.

If you design something pretty with good golf shots in it, then I think that's the combination that creates a really nice golf course.

I like to design my clothes; I design my jewelry, yeah. It's fun.

The design of a city is like a strange archeology.

Is there a design in the events of our lives? Or do things just happen, much like a junk yard falling down a staircase? If it's the latter, how do you deal with it?

I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

I became an actor by accident, not by design.

Manufacturing productivity is greatly determined by the design of jobs and how workers are rewarded.

He landed 10 feet below with a sickening crunch-i'm guessing his enhancements didn't allow him to bounce back up like a ball. we call that a design flaw.

Once we have a nice, conceptual sketch and rendering and design approved, then it's really about pinpointing what's functional and what's not, because functional equals expensive.

I love Prada shirts because they're so decorative and figure-hugging, but I also like Reiss shirts because they're clean, simple and look as if they've come off the peg from a design house.

I buy wine according to the bottle design. After I get down the first glass it all tastes okay to me so I figure you go for something classy to look at on the table

Magazines that depend on photography, and design, and long reads, and quality stuff, are going to do just fine despite the Internet and cable news.

I fear that we are beginning to design ourselves to suit digital models of us, and I worry about a leaching of empathy and humanity in that process.

The design is done when the problem goes away.

When we design our national R&D programs, we ought to ensure a place for the small, the new, and the cutting-edge.

You never know what people are going to respond to or want in your work, and you just hope for the best when you design a collection, and try to make it as well-rounded as you can.

My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it in such a way that it will cut together. And how to design the style and tone.

Dissimulation, even the most innocent in its nature, is ever productive of embarrassment; whether the design is evil or not artifice is always dangerous and almost inevitably disgraceful.

The hardware and the software will come from Silicon Valley. But the watch case, the dial, the design, the idea, the crown, that part of the watch will, of course, be Swiss.

The phrase "corporate identity design" seems to be a bit exclusive it sometimes frightens the smaller client who can't relate because they don't consider themselves "corporate."

A successful solution to the client's design needs requires a collaboration of my skills, talents and knowledge with the client's information base, history in their industry and personality.

In matters of conscience that is the best sense which every wise man takes in before he hath sullied his understanding with the designs of sophisters and interested persons.

To me, the building [of Museum of Arts and Design]now looks like a lovely jewel box, and the tiled façade reminds me of a heat shield.

Craft is not a category; it's a means. The folks running the museum [Museum of Arts and Design]are sharp, and they know this, but they are in a bind.

As far as ideas about book design: I have plenty. But I also try and let people do their jobs.

I love the creative outlet of designing, and I love make-up and products and feel like I find so many great products around the world that I want to recreate, so I want to do that or design.

Is there a homeless guy built in to the design of Dunkin' Donuts? ...There'll be an entrance here... a deranged lunatic here.

I've always wanted to get involved with designing a video game.

I'm a woman for all seasons. I mix 'n' match, do designer and high street - keep all my good pieces. I design all my evening and cocktail dresses most of the time as I dislike what is out there.

Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.

Instead of asking, 'What should a woman do—what is her role?' it would be far more helpful to ask, 'What is a woman—what is her design?' and, 'Why did God place Woman in our midst?

Design [is] the emerging ethos formulating and then answering a very new question: What shall we do now, in the face of the chaos that we have created?

In the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery.

My role is to find strategic insights as to where design can have the most business impact. A designer can bring a viewpoint of not just aesthetics, but economics and usage.

Technology makes possibilities. Design makes solutions. Art makes questions. Leadership makes actions.

Design is about crafting an experience that is unfamiliar enough to feel novel, yet familiar enough to instill confidence.