Design Quotes · Page 49

All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines.

— Amar Bose

Critical design aims to really push the boundaries of design and to reconsider the element of fiction.

— Nelly Ben Hayoun

“The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It is inappropriate (to allow parents) to design the curriculum and to run the school.

— Rod Paige

I can't stop pointing to the beauty. Every moment and place says, 'Put this design in your carpet!

— Rumi

Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical.

— Victor Papanek

Good design is clear thinking made visible, bad design is stupidity made visible

— Edward Tufte

I don't really design for myself. It would be very limiting.

— Jenny Packham

Ugly design should be rejected, just like nonfunctional design is rejected, just like nonenvironmentally conscious design should be rejected. It's a value.

— Paola Antonelli

Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what…

— Malcolm Mclaren

Once evolution gets a good basic design, it tends to throw away the variants and concentrate on the near-infinite diversity within that…

— Dan Simmons

The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the…

— Blaise Pascal

Designing a product and understanding how it filters through into the market and into the rest of the company is very important…

— Alexander Wang

If Mrs Merkel wants to wear Westwood, I can promise that I will design clothes for her that will make her look…

— Vivienne Westwood

Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.

— Moshe Safdie

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

— James Wolcott

Before thy undertaking of any design, weigh the glory of thy action with the danger of the attempt; if the glory outweigh…

— Francis Quarles

Everywhere I go I meet girls and boys who want to be astronauts and explore space, or they love the ocean and…

— Sally Ride

Really, you have to keep everything streamlined, and lined and sexy and close to their body. They really had to work very…

— Christine Bieselin Clark

. . . It wasn't until the jet engine came into being and that engine was coupled with special airplane designs -…

— Joe Sutter

These most crafty enemies [the devils] have filled and inebriated with gall and bitterness the Church, the spouse of the Immaculate Lamb,…

— Pope Leo XIII

The design and creative side is not a problem, but learning how to run a company as a young creative has been…

— Dominic Jones

I decided when I was a kid that I would only go out of the house if I felt good enough to…

— John Travolta

I did A-levels in Art, Graphic Design, Maths and General Studies, and always thought I would be an artist or graphic designer,…

— Dan Hardy

When you make a company, you make a utopia. It's where you design your perfect world.

— Derek Sivers

Apple's Jony Ive describes his "fanatical" approach to design in new interview

— Jonathan Ive

In a rock garden we foster a little patch of the wilderness that stands to us for freedom.

— Jason Hill

I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.

— Jil Sander

Architecture is about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea.

— Lebbeus Woods

“If there is shit all around me, how can I eat my ice cream?”

— S Balaram

“Laws are designed by corporate governments to control the behaviors of their mass populations.”

— Steven Magee

I've gone to school for business, for design, for architecture.

— Venus Williams

Somebody who's designing something for himself has at least got a market of one that he's very close to.

— Steve Wozniak

I started designing the greenest the most connected home before the iPhone and the iPad.

— Tony Fadell

“For design thinkers, however, behaviors are never right or wrong, but they are always meaningful. The”

— Tim Brown

It would be nice if we could design a virtual reality in Hyperbolic Space, and meet each other there.

— Donald Knuth

If I were a rock star, I'd design my own clothes. I'd do it because that's the mark of a true rock…

— Shawn Amos

Everything we design and make is an improvisation, a lash-up, something inept and provisional.

— David Pye

I used to draw and design my own furniture in college but never had the means to build them.

— Shervin Pishevar

Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order

— Victor Papanek