Design Quotes · Page 133

I think the way design was practiced for most of the 20th century was very declarative. A designer came up with a…

— Khoi Vinh

There are three basic principles behind any well-designed product: truth, humanity, and simplicity.

— Sohrab Vossoughi

One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an…

— Joseph Story

By no definition of any modern scientist is intelligent design science, and it's a waste of our students' time to subject them…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

Modern design becomes the eye catcher because it's out of context, it is something newborn and fresh, something people have never seen…

— Ross Lovegrove

Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.

— Ivan Chermayeff

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

— Jens Martin Skibsted

I've learnt something from every failure. The products I helped design at the first two companies I worked for were utter failures.…

— Tony Fadell

The laws of physics ... seem to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design... The universe must have a purpose.

— Paul Davies

Conceptual integrity is the most important consideration in system design.

— Fred Brooks

We design our world, while our world acts back on us and designs us.

— Anne-Marie Willis

I really feel that design has the capacity to communicate, and I really have concentrated on the communication of positive values.

— Marcel Wanders

It was 4 or 5 years into my first design job before the idea of doing graphic design on computers started taking…

— Michael Bierut

I don`t think this has been fully understood by the United States... If you look at India, China and Russia, they all…

— Craig R. Barrett

A dull axe never loves grindstones, but a keen workman does; and he puts his tool on them in order that it…

— Henry Ward Beecher

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.

— Thomas Keneally

Accessible design is good design - it benefits people who don't have disabilities as well as people who do. Accessibility is all…

— Steve Ballmer

If I focused hard on getting a literary agent, and doing things like that, instead of designing my blog's header, I would…

— Tao Lin

Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for…

— Anonymous

Design is a thinking process that starts in the head and with sketches. Thinking cannot be done by a computer.

— Dieter Rams

I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.

— Ai Weiwei

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

— Josh Billings

The attendant on William Rufus, who discharged at a deer an arrow, which glanced against a tree and killed the king, was…

— Richard Whately

I am proud to be part of the Toys for Tots program for a second year. In addition to giving kids the…

— Dale Jarrett

"Authenticity" doesn't mean much to me. I just want "good", in the sense of well-designed, well-constructed, long-lasting garments. My interest in military…

— William Gibson

We didn't push it down people's throats...One turned into three in a short period of time. I built the first one and...one…

— Drew Waters

Differential equations won't help you much in the design of aeroplanes - not yet, anyhow.

— Nevil Shute

I'm getting into interior design.

— Playboi Carti

You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony.

— Stephen Sondheim

Because I live and breathe design every day, sometimes I will come across an idea that is something I want to try.…

— Jonathan Scott

We find that Good and Evil happen alike to all Men on this Side of the Grave; and as the principle Design…

— Joseph Addison

I wish Peeta were here to hold me, until I remember I'm not supposed to wish that anymore. I have chosen Gale…

— Suzanne Collins

Our role is to imagine products that don't exist and guide them to life.

— Anonymous

Birds are so much wiser than we! A robin builds a nest for robins. A seagull builds a nest for seagulls. They…

— Dorothy Draper

The difference between the novice and the master is simply that the novice has not learnt, yet, how to do things in…

— Christopher Alexander

I guess I just developed more of an interest to actually be a part of the design, picking out the fabric and…

— Jhene Aiko

Become a creative thinking detective! Ask probing questions. There is no such thing as a wasted question.

— Elaine Dundon

The definite link between all the women who wear my designs is that they are strong, independent, and with their own opinions.

— Roksanda Ilincic

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

— Jonathan Ive