When the Great Fire of London destroyed most of the medieval city in 1666, Christopher Wren was invited to design a new… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
Direction is a thousand choices, a thousand decisions a day. And having a vision of what you want, and then knowing what… — Sean Stone Copy Share Image
If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter… — Adrian Frutiger Copy Share Image
Just as the telescope and microscope show us that there is order and design in all the works of God's hand, from… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information. And so the point is to find design strategies that reveal… — Edward Tufte Copy Share Image
Please don't fall into the trap of believing that I am terribly dogmatical about [the goto statement]. I have the uncomfortable feeling… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
The fears you do not face become your walls. Most people in business, and in their personal lives, design everything so they… — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
It seems like suffering's the only time we can see what's essential. If peace ever comes back I'm making a vow: I'll… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
“CIRCLES OF LIFE Everything Turns, Rotates, Spins, Circles, Loops, Pulsates, Resonates, And Repeats. Circles Of life, Born from Pulses Of light, Vibrate… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society. Of… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Amazing fine tuning occurs in the laws that make this complexity possible. Realization of the complexity of what is accomplished makes it… — George F. R. Ellis Copy Share Image
You look at energy use in the U.S. and one-third of it is automotive or our transportation system, one-third of it is… — Carol Ross Barney Copy Share Image
What does my taste have to do with the personality of the person I'm working for? It's taking them through a journey… — Jim Walrod Copy Share Image
There's a simple arithmetical logic at work. Build more unaffordable and not always architecturally sympathetic apartments, watch the rents rise, the tarts… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Professors typically spend their time in meetings about planning, policy, proposals, fund-raising, consulting, interviewing, traveling, and so forth, but spend relatively little… — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
A Grand Design we couldn't see because we were part of it. A Grand Design we only got occasional, fleeting glimpses of.… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
For years, computer scientists were treating operating systems design as sort of an open-reserch issue, when the field's direction had been decided… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
Until I was eighteen, I did not know that you could study fashion design or art. I really didn't know. I already… — Raf Simons Copy Share Image
The rage for wanting to conclude is one of the most deadly and most fruitless manias to befall humanity. Each religion and… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is… — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
So there's no typical day, but I transition through the course of my business day by doing everything from construction meetings on… — Ivanka Trump Copy Share Image
Everything has a personality: everything sends an emotional signal. Even where this was not the intention of the designer, the people who… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Amory Lovins says the primary design criteria he uses is the question How do we love all the children? Not just our… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
“design thinking requires bridging the “knowing-doing gap.” The tools of the design thinker—getting out into the world to be inspired by people,… — Tim Brown Copy Share Image
Year after year, animal print, hides, fur, tusks et al find their way into the home as design elements in various spaces;… — Hilary Farr Copy Share Image
Without meditation, and without a relationship to your mind, you fail to use the power of the mind. You fail to rely… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
“There's an old joke among software developers. When something works in an unexpected but strangely effective way, the developers often kid, "Oh,… — Dan Saffer Copy Share Image
It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being... Almighty God would mercifully… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I went to work at political consulting firms, graphic design and communications firms and ultimately, magazines. Today, my career is in the… — Lewis Schiff Copy Share Image
I have been called an eco-designer simply because I use wood. But I am not an eco-designer, nor does the use of… — David Trubridge Copy Share Image
Who said that justice is what you imagine? Can you be sure that you know it when you see it, that you… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
The more contemplative gardener, seeing the garden as a whole, the design of it, and its nature as a still place of… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude, and keep us from being a… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
My earliest design work was print, and that was my first love. Of course, as the years went on, I did more… — John Gruber Copy Share Image
After I left school, where I studied art, photography and textiles at A-level, I started doing an apprenticeship in interior design, but… — Zoe Sugg Copy Share Image
The only thing Martha and I have in common is that we both used to model. Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her… — Kathy Ireland Copy Share Image
A piece of jewelry is in a sense an object that is not complete in itself. Jewelry is a ‘what is it?’… — Art Smith Copy Share Image
“In the search for meaning we must not forget that the gods (or God, for that matter) are a concept of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image