“For us to deem a work of architecture elegant, it is hence not enough that it look simple: we must feel that… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Space exploration must be undertaken not only out of simple human curiosity but also to further the survival of the species. The… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Years ago I was in a band called Two Lane Blacktop - we deliberately named ourselves after the 'Two-Lane Blacktop' movie, 'cuz… — Ladyhawke Copy Share Image
By understanding evolution as the expression of universal intelligence, now becoming conscious of itself within us, and as us, we overcome the… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
Can we get out of this system something good for us? We could, if we were united with an intelligent self-interest that… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
When you see a space for the first time, you aren't just thinking about how to decorate it, you are thinking of… — Sussanne Khan Copy Share Image
In our interconnected world, novel technology could empower just one fanatic, or some weirdo with a mindset of those who now design… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
When I studied with Nicholas Ray he was always telling us, "If you want to make films, watch a lot of films,… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
It was certainly not by design that the particles fell into order, they did not work out what they were going to… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
The fundamental purpose of design thinking is to produce something that does not now exist. And so it is with integrative thinking… — Roger Martin Copy Share Image
There's always been trying at some stage to design people. And it will always be presented initially as a positive thing, as… — Maria Doyle Kennedy Copy Share Image
Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
The place has had a super-conflicted relationship to its mission. In 1956, it opened as the Museum of Contemporary Crafts. Then in… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Engineers have a certain mindset of how they approach problem solving. That's basically what engineers are: problem solvers. You identify the problem.… — Trevor Bauer Copy Share Image
Don’t worry about being able to identify each of these plants (in your designs for clients). The world is full of botanists… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
What's the number-one thing people do on the Web? They read. Words and numbers are the raw material from which the vast… — Gerry McGovern Copy Share Image
Although people often equate them, glamour is not the same as beauty, stylishness, luxury, celebrity, or sex appeal. It is not limited… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
The genome was once thought to be just the blueprint for a living organism, like a combination of the architect's plan for… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
We, as designers, have a job with so many possibilities and connections. We are connected to so many different portals, from art… — Miuccia Prada Copy Share Image
There's established gaming IP that's coming from console to mobile, which is interesting. Everything is converging a little bit toward mobile devices… — Chris DeWolfe Copy Share Image
I had a parakeet that used to fly around the house and crash into these huge mirrors my mother put in. Ever… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
What can we learn from the battle between data and design? What can we learn from the relationship between Google and Apple?… — Ben Parr Copy Share Image
Whatever you are physically,' he said, 'Male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy -- all those things matter less than… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
For thirty years most interface design, and most comptuer design, has been headed down the path of the "dramatic" machine. Its highest… — Mark Weiser Copy Share Image
I really, really like interior design. I grew up in a really old house outside of Philly that was built in 1821.… — Abbi Jacobson Copy Share Image
The designs and my credit have been stolen from me, since I alone have designed the Alien. So why does Fox not… — H. R. Giger Copy Share Image
Action is cool but it's all down to the director's interpretation at the end of the day, so you have to serve… — Joey Ansah Copy Share Image
“…no industrial designer worth his salt, or our attention, has been trained to work exclusively on any particular product, unless by accident.… — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
When we think of design, we usually imagine things that are chosen because they are designed. Vases or comic books or architecture...… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
When I'm doing kitchen planning as well as bathroom design, I try to walk through the day with the homeowner. If we're… — Candice Olson Copy Share Image
What I learned from my years in Silicon Valley is that design can have a primary role in how a business is… — Yves Behar Copy Share Image
Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
I had always watched HGTV with my mom when I was very young, we would cuddle and watch interior design shows. I… — Violet Chachki Copy Share Image
You will find scraps of paper all over the house when I am designing a new woodcut and woe betide the person… — Margaret Preston Copy Share Image
The results of life are uncalculated and uncalculable. The years teach much which the days never know. The persons who compose our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a design to be each other's mutual comfort and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
