Design Quotes · Page 47

Development is only necessary to rectify the ignorance of designers

— Keith Duckworth

You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.

— Wim Crouwel

The exquisite order displayed by our scientific understanding of the physical world calls for the divine.

— Vera Kistiakowsky

I think of what I do as copying nature's design process.

— Frances Arnold

Above all else, align with customers. Win when they win. Win only when they win.

— Jeff Bezos

The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be

— Paula Scher

Be intentional with your space. Don't be afraid to step on a limb and design your home the way you love it.

— Joanna Gaines

In software design, it's all about making a guess, trying it, and then learning from the experience.

— Stewart Butterfield

The nature of design is to synthesize disparate perspectives and create a richer end product through collaboration and iteration.

— Jens Martin Skibsted

...it occurred to her how some people continued through no design of one's own to be in one's life while others might…

— Susan Minot

The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little…

— Bill Gates

Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead…

— Ben Horowitz

Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements…

— John Maeda

For me, some of the most intense creativity comes when something has to change for technical or design reasons, and you're trying…

— Richard K. Morgan

If you look at any designer you admire, whose work inspires you, and whose approach somehow resonates with you, I promise you'll…

— Alexander Isley

Great design will not sell an inferior product, but it will enable a great product to achieve its maximum potential.

— Thomas Watson, Jr

No matter what, when you major in theater arts whether you want to write or be a director or design scenery or…

— Carol Burnett

Information design has been around since the 1970s. Pioneers like Yale University design guru Edward Tufte and design agency Pentagram have long…

— David McCandless

Every few decades, we have an opportunity to make a drastic change to the way we live our lives. We get a…

— Paul Polman

We [H&M] believe that growth, profit and sustainability are not contradictory. Our ambition is to be a fair and profitable company, because…

— Karl-Johan Persson

Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt,…

— Paul Rand

The result of [the] cumulative efforts to investigate the cell - to investigate life at the molecular level - is a loud,…

— Michael Behe

One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative…

— Edward Hopper

Governments and their hired negotiators are designing the supranational rules and pressing for their adoption and for compliance - and the US…

— Thomas Pogge

Customers can't always tell you what they want, but they can always tell you what's wrong.

— Carly Fiorina

Designing a house is like doing a movie: Once you're done, you want to say, 'I hope you all enjoy it.'

— Jennifer Aniston

I don't design. I don't paint. I absolutely never touch my works.

— Maurizio Cattelan

Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is 'on paper.'

— Alan Cooper

Design is defined by light and shade, and appropriate lighting is enormously important.

— Albert Hadley

I love math. I have little secret number tattoos everywhere. I design them.

— Pauley Perrette

Conceptual integrity is the most important consideration in system design.

— Fred Brooks

It's when we're given choice that we sit with the gods and design ourselves.

— Dorothy Gilman

Design is all about learning from doing, that’s how we evolve to the best solution.

— Tim Brown

Unfortunately, some women want to remake their husbands after their own design.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

If you correspond to the designs of God, He will make a saint of you.

— Paul of the Cross

I would design for anybody who gives me a free hand and who doesn't sit on my head.

— Gauri Khan

There's no way a photograph has to look... in a sense. There are no formal rules of design that can apply.

— Garry Winogrand

Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.

— David Carson

“You want me to explain myself! give me a brush, not a pen”

— Kathe Epp

Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response.

— April Greiman