Design Quotes · Page 120

Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall…

— Henry Petroski

I wanted to design pieces that you wore all the time.

— Jennifer Meyer

Let the Truth be known, no ship is unsinkable. The bigger the ship, the easier it is to sink her. I learned…

— Thomas Andrews

Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable human environments...Permaculture uses the inherent qualities of plants and animals combined with the natural…

— Bill Mollison

When I started coming to do shows in New York, New York had a pretty electric energy then. It was the early-nineties,…

— Shalom Harlow

After Brexit, we need to design a modern and fair immigration system which attracts talent and investment from the E.U. and the…

— Munira Mirza

Sacred spaces can be created in any environment.

— Christy Turlington

When I got into high school, that's when I stated dabbling in fashion design. I got involved in the theater department's costume…

— Ashley Nell Tipton

My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision. poetry, surrealism and magic [to design].

— Philippe Starck

The cause of the six-sided shape of a snowflake is none other than that of the ordered shapes of plants and of…

— Johannes Kepler

I seem to always start a collection by designing outerwear and jackets.

— Alexander Wang

Don't get too caught up in making money or having a job, get excited about the fact that you can design your…

— Anonymous

There is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it all. . . It seems as though somebody…

— Paul Davies

There is in nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available. This methodizing mind…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .

— John Maynard Keynes

In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote,…

— Robert Bringhurst

Technology is, in the broadest sense, mind or intelligence or purpose blending with nature.

— Paul Davies

The fact that ACPI was designed by a group of monkeys high on LSD, and is some of the worst designs in…

— Linus Torvalds

I decided to design and build my own stereo amplifier system at age 13.

— Jim Cantrell

Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .

— Ansel Adams

For much of its existence, design was all about convenience. We wanted to hide technology so that users are not distracted into…

— Evgeny Morozov

I think that it's worthwhile to explore the ways in which you write the person that's writing your plays as opposed to…

— Tony Kushner

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

— Twiggy

The feature of living matter that most demands explanation is that it is almost unimaginably complicated in directions that convey a powerful…

— Richard Dawkins

The easiest approach to any strong color is to use a lot of it, thus unifying a room. However, beware of too…

— Van Day Truex

I might do a film someday for the collection. I love designing sets and creating environments, in film school and for my…

— Pamela Love

When we say there is a GOD, we mean that there is an intelligent designing cause of what we see in the…

— Joseph Priestley

Outlier' came together pretty quickly. There's no real telling why that happens, sometimes the thing is just more intricate and takes longer…

— Bonobo

I studied Computer Science when I was in my undergrad and minored in Digital Art & Design.

— Jenova Chen

With function, flow, and form as basis, design is evaluated as a process culminating in an entity which intensifies comprehension.

— Ladislav Sutnar

I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter

— Kenzo Tange

For me, the concept of design is more than object-oriented; it encompasses the design of processes, systems and institutions as well. Increasingly,…

— John Seely Brown

For me, the sound design and the musical score is a big part of what makes scary movies work.

— James Wan

My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make…

— Robert Moog

Design is just language and the real issue is what you use that language to do.

— Tibor Kalman

If I had one golf course, from a design standpoint, one that I really love, it would probably be Pinehurst. There's a…

— Jack Nicklaus

Nature doesn't see things through the prism of good or bad. It rewards efficiency. That is the simplicity of evolution, matching design…

— Blake Crouch

User experience is everything. It always has been, but it's undervalued and underinvested in. If you don't know user-centered design, study it.…

— Evan Williams

There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be…

— Henry Fielding

Design is a career where you learn creative decision making.

— Biz Stone