Design Quotes · Page 59

My sense of designing is a mix of intuition and intellectual control.

— Olivier Theyskens

As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.

— Ad Reinhardt

Forget all the rules you ever learned about graphic design.

— Bob Gill

How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?

— Kinky Friedman

I have a background in graphic design and have been designing t-shirt graphics for years.

— Manila Luzon

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

— Steve Jobs

Dress designing, incidentally, is to me not a profession but an art.

— Elsa Schiaparelli

I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.

— Vera Wang

Have you ever noticed how some rooms exude a certain energy, warmth, and a harmony of spirit? If you have, then you…

— Charlotte Moss

Object-oriented programming as it emerged in Simula 67 allows software structure to be based on real-world structures, and gives programmers a powerful…

— David Gelernter

I never smoke grass and drive my car because, for one thing, no matter how many letters I write to the road…

— Arj Barker

The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to…

— Pliny the Elder

Good design is being able to put a $100,000 thing next to a $20 thing. If it looks right and it works…

— Lenny Kravitz

Crappy old OSes have value in the basically negative sense that changing to new ones makes us wish we'd never been born.

— Neal Stephenson

The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human.

— John Maeda

If you keep shouting, you are not making communication any better. You are only removing the talking and whispering from the system.…

— Bruno Monguzzi

I didn't want to do Chekhov or Shakespeare. So I switched my major from acting to costume design. Eventually, I got a…

— Nico Santos

Design does matter. And not necessarily in a way that people realize. A lot of what you do, people take for granted…

— Michael Bloomberg

Having made up my mind, I went to see Steve [Jobs]. I brought a hand-drawn sketch with me, and I said, "Please…

— Masayoshi Son

In the end, it's clear that the incorporation of synthetic biology in product and architectural design will enable the transition from designs…

— Neri Oxman

Living through the 1929 Great Depression helped shape my social conscience. During this time, I realized the earth was still the same…

— Jacque Fresco

Wearing a bold print gets harder as you get older. Its safer to stick to subtle prints or block colours. I have…

— Twiggy

Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it… If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code…

— Tony Hoare

Such is the condition of life that something is always wanting to happiness. In youth we have warm hopes, which are soon…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us.

— Andy Hargreaves

I broke pretty much every rule of classic game design and tried to invent new ones.

— David Cage

Something must have form to be seen but must make sense to be understood and used.

— Klaus Krippendorff

I never knew that I would be actually designing clothes or as into fashion as I am now.

— Tyga

The basic principal of recursive design is to make the parts have the same power as the whole.

— Bob Barton

I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.

— Marc Newson

“The alternative to good design is bad design, not no design at all.”

— Anonymous

My designs and labors and aspirations are my only friends.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I like films where the music and the sound design, at times, are almost indistinguishable.

— Christopher Nolan

Making good design is easy. It's polishing the half-assed stuff that takes time.

— Stefan G. Bucher

The quality of any creative endeavor tends to approach the level of taste of whoever is in charge.

— John Gruber

I want industrial design to be a public subject. I want people to love objects the way they love clothing.

— Karim Rashid

Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.

— Anonymous

No architect should design buildings that import a huge amount of energy.

— Christiana Figueres

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.

— Kevin Kelly

“Design is relationships. Design is a relationship between form and content.”

— Paul Rand