Design Quotes · Page 41

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

— Anonymous

Obamacare is terminal. It is going to fail under the crushing weight of its own flawed design.

— Glenn Thompson

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

— Miguel de Cervantes

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

— Louis Kahn

If you don't have an emotionally engaging design for a device, no one will care about it.

— Tony Fadell

There are a million things I'd rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping.

— Christian Louboutin

Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.

— Anonymous

It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe.

— Jil Sander

For productive collaboration adopt five principles: involve the relevant stakeholders, build consensus phase by phase, design a process map, designate a process…

— David Friedrich Strauss

Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or communications we are witnessing unprecedented global transformation…

— Malcolm Mclaren

Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to…

— George Nelson

Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.

— Jan Tschichold

At various times over 20 years, I did preliminary designs for aircraft like the Stratolaunch. For that whole time I was encouraging…

— Burt Rutan

To me, design is very personal. I'm not one of those people who is like, 'This is right, this is wrong.' You…

— Bobby Berk

I'm not the expert on the great gameplay. I come in for the character design, monsters, atmosphere. I'm not the technician.

— Clive Barker

By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the…

— Steven Chu

In great cities, spaces as well as places are designed and built: walking, witnessing, being in public, are as much part of…

— Rebecca Solnit

That's always my downfall - when I start not having fun or not feeling passionate about what I'm doing. But that's why…

— Peter Dundas

“The birds do not sing, clouds remain of rubber, glass, steel. A stone has lodged in the engine block, the process of…

— John Hawkes

There are three things you need to do as a CEO-founder. Think strategically, drive design, and drive technology. Some people who are…

— Keith Rabois

I have an admiration, even though I'm not likely to do that sort of thing myself, for [Ayn] Roark's behavior when he…

— Murray Bookchin

Here again, there is no tabulation; for us it is left to sacrifice literary charm, and even some accuracy, in order to…

— Aleister Crowley

“The tides of time should be able to imprint the passing of the years on an object. They physical decay or natural…

— Andrew Juniper

I've always been altering clothing my entire life. But I would have to say my first real amateur endeavor would have to…

— Ashley Purdy

People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design.

— Richard Dawkins

Fashion is it's own currency, some pieces of fashion you can never put a dollar amount on.

— Melody Minagar

I think architects design outside in. Or they design basically outside. They don't get in the building anymore.

— Marcel Wanders

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

— Richard Branson

“Copywriting is a design muse, it carves a beautiful masterpiece in an imaginative way.”

— Sharen Song

Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature.

— Roberto Cavalli

Communication in every which way is everything for the leader.

— John Maeda

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

— Dennis Ritchie

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

— Cynthia Rowley

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

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

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

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

— Marc Newson