Design Quotes · Page 32

... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed.

— Dennis Ritchie

Find the simplest model that is not a lie is the key to better software design.

— David Parnas

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

— Orville Wright

Design: holding conflicting ideas in your head without difficulty

— Danny Hillis

Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

— Agatha Christie

There's something that human beings understand inherently about simplicity in design.

— Melody Gardot

All designers have a platform, an audience. Whether it's one or a million, it doesn't matter.

— Prabal Gurung

Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.

— Cynthia Rowley

Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design…

— Paul Cezanne

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

— Ian Shapiro

Both of them are close to how I'd envisioned them. In Ico's case the design and in SotC's the visual look were…

— Fumito Ueda

There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design.

— Edward Tufte

Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid…

— Martin Filler

Good design successfully manages the tensions between user needs, technology feasibility, and business viability.

— Tim Brown

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

— Anonymous

Engineering is not a science. Science studies particular events to find general laws. Engineering design makes use of the laws to solve…

— Ove Arup

He had a sense of his dignity, which was of the most exquisite nature. He could detect a design upon it when…

— Charles Dickens

We [MIT Smart Cities research group] try to identify the fundamental underlying design assumptions that everybody takes as a sort of given…

— William J. Mitchell

The stories circulating that Kanye West's laptop has been stolen are completely false. His laptop has never been out of his possession.…

— Malik Yusef

Amazingly, my first project at Granta was the Sex issue. Given my own proclivity for the nuances of hedonistic and sexual exploration,…

— Michael Salu

“In School of One, students have daily "playlists" of their learning tasks that are attuned to each student's learning needs, based on…

— Eric Ries

When I first prepared this particular talk... I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the…

— Alan Kay

I think my style revolves around the philosophy that less is more, that simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. That goes for my…

— G-Eazy

Sometimes clients have a sophisticated view of their design problem, sometimes they do not. I often spend time with the client redefining…

— Saul Bass

Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.

— Chip Kidd

I love fashion, and I've always wanted to do costume design, but I'm in jeans and T-shirts most of the time.

— Clemence Poesy

Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.

— Jonathan Ive

I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want…

— Debbie Allen

I definitely feel that we cannot do the fantastic things based on the real, unless we first know the real.

— Walt Disney

With the Solaris, however, I wanted to design a very simple, elegant dress watch

— Marc Newson

So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward.

— Genevieve Gorder

I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.

— Paloma Picasso

The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

— Steve Jobs

Taking delight in the journey takes confidence. It pushes the envelope of design.

— Seth Godin

The visual image is a kind of tripwire for the emotions.

— Diane Ackerman

Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

— Raymond Loewy

I am always interested in designing things that have a great price point attached to it.

— Tory Burch

It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.

— Robert J. Sawyer

“the most important part of design is finding all the issues to be resolved. The rest are details”

— Soumeet Lanka

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

— Miguel de Cervantes