Design Quotes

Communication in every which way is everything for the leader.

Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately.

Design provides solutions, art asks questions.

Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars.

But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .

I'm still really into set design and construction when I do films. I notice that stuff.

It is very important to lead the field and innovate in game design.

You have to design and program differently. Combat action in an MMO is so different to combat in a first-person shooter.

If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.

The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design.

Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing.

When I was a very little boy I lived underneath the air pattern of LaGuardia airport in New York and I watched the planes fly to their destinations. I was in love with the design of these airplanes.

We have concluded that it is not [science], and moreover that ID cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents.

Design is the conscious imposition of meaningful order.

Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great.

What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness.

What we don't include is as important as what we do include.

We shouldn't be afraid to fail- if we are not failing we are not pushing.

As consumers we are incredibly discerning, we sense where has been great care in the design, and when there is cynicism and greed.

Objects and their manufacture are inseparable, you understand a product if you understand how it's made.

It's one of the curses of designing that when you look at anything, you're constantly thinking, Why? Why - why was it designed like that, and not like this?

I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making.

If something is going to be better, it is new, and if it's new you are confronting problems and challenges you don't have references for.

The computer industry is creatively bankrupt.

If you are truly innovating, you don't have a prototype you can refer to.

I call myself an experimental philosopher which is as ambiguous a term as comprehensive anticipatory design scientist.

There is a great amity between designing and art.

Everyone is an artist.

When I design menswear, it is important for me to consider where you wear the clothes and what purpose they serve.

It is actually nonsense to link menswear and travel. But it is important that you have a purpose when you design menswear.

The first design I created was a circular skirt for my Barbie when I was 7.

I know what the world exists for, but I know not how it came into existence. I see the design, but not the designer. I understand the question, but not the questioner.

It's easy to make something with a million style-lines. Simplicity is the most difficult thing to achieve, and that's how I approach design - very minimal, pare it down, perfect.

I always wanted to design for films.

Books woke me up. Books are my favorite man-made objects. I fetishize their design, smell, feel. And that they can contain such burning, complex communications is a miracle to me.

Devotion to the facts will always give the pleasures of recognition; adherence to the rules of design, the pleasures of order and certainty.

I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s.

One thing that is sometimes forgotten in this "future of books" discussion is that there are all these awesome presses - big and small - that are producing and designing amazing books.

Designers from start to finish now in digital media have to think in a much more sort of thoughtful serious and humble way about how design audiences will receive their products.

The way I look at my job, I spend a lot of time trying to create the conditions for good design to happen and I don't get an opportunity to do a lot of hands on work.

I think there's always something about design that is going to be very difficult for more than a small fraction of people to really get.

I design some of my own clothes now.

Where you can see tribal behavior now is in this business about teaching evolution in a science class and intelligent design. It's the scientists themselves are behaving tribally.

The Way of Tao is this: It strives not, but conquers; It speaks not, but all is made clear; It summons not, but its house is crowded; It contrives not, but the design is perfect.

Architect: Someone who knows the difference between that which could be done and that which should be done.

Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.

Emily And her love to be Carved in a heart On a berry tree But it's only a little farewell lovespell Time to design a woman

When you look around your life and you notice that something is missing, don't go looking for it -- create it! The key is to design a compelling destination, while enjoying the journey!

Music definitely inspires my design all the time.

I do love a bit of fashion. I grew up around a lot of it as my mum and dad had clothing stores so my mum was always designing a lot, and I definitely had that as an influence.