The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the… — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
What is commonly overlooked in using the computer is the fact that the central goal of design is still to obviate failure,… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Five years ago, the heroes were technologists. Today, the heroes are designers building out a user experience. You can have the most… — Robert Brunner Copy Share Image
I believe that the place where an animal dies is a sacred one. There is a need to bring ritual into the… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Why can't you summon a command line and search your real-world home for 'Honda car keys,' and specify rooms in your house… — Richard Dooling Copy Share Image
Throughout this book, we've been evangelizing simplicity, but ironically, the practice of simplicity is not simple. It is easy to build a… — Jakob Nielsen Copy Share Image
There's a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code and start over. The reason is that they think… — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
Howard Chaykin was one of the few who dared to make mainstream comics different back in the eighties; it was guys like… — Garth Ennis Copy Share Image
There was never a moment where I was intentionally cribbing from another actor. More so, I grew up watching other actors design… — Cameron Monaghan Copy Share Image
We were so wholly one I had not thought That we could die apart. I had not thought That I could move,—and… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
I wonder what my father saw in his most secret sight of the right life. It's my guess he wanted to live… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
Game design has always been a secondary passion. I don't know how to program, though, so I'm at this strange crossroads where… — Thomas Middleditch Copy Share Image
The original Heart logo was made back in the real early '70s by Mike Fisher, who I used to be in a… — Ann Wilson Copy Share Image
Hunts Point Revival's reuse of the existing structure as part of the new development was conceptually bold and challenging. Overall, the project… — Edward Mazria Copy Share Image
To plot is to live. […] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Indeed the early history of rocket design could be read as the simple desire to get the rocket to function long enough… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I have never seen a game's graphics look so sharp and clean. The sound design for the game is also unique on… — Don Bluth Copy Share Image
“Quant was the first designer to design for her generation—and she was great at it. She didn’t care about making money; she… — Ann Shen Copy Share Image
If you do not want what I want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong. Or if my… — David Keirsey Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
A movie contains literally tens of thousands of ideas. They're in the form of every sentence; in the performance of each line;… — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
I would like to suggest to you that the extent to which government in America has departed from the original design of… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
None the less, perhaps, the highest pleasure in art is identical with the highest pleasure inscientific theory. The emotion which accompanies the… — Roger Fry Copy Share Image
Serious accidents are frequently blamed on "human error." Yet careful analysis of such situations shows that the design or installation of the… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
With action in Hollywood, a choreographer will be hired to design an amazing fight, with all these cool little narrative bits, such… — Joey Ansah Copy Share Image
My chops have always been sort of weak, because the right side of my body was paralyzed a little bit. It was… — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
Consumers have zero time for products that are not simple, intuitive, and attractive to use. This is especially true with Internet products,… — David Cohen Copy Share Image
We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I love sharing my world, and I love showing the creative process, whether we're in the middle of a design meetings for… — Kim Kardashian Copy Share Image
Dawkins asserts that final causes and design don't really exist. Unguided evolution explains it all. Francis Crick thought the same thing but… — Frank Turek Copy Share Image
“Our critics make us strong! Our fears make us bold! Our haters make us wise! Our foes make us active! Our obstacles… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Cartooning is completely different from other media: it is closely related to film and prose, other narrative forms, but the skills needed… — Jessica Abel Copy Share Image
If God is omnipotent and omniscient, why didn't he start the universe out in the first place so it would come out… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
When you work with web design companies in San Francisco, you end up with a bunch of twenty-somethings who have their own… — Brenda Laurel Copy Share Image
Designing a website can be a bit like being a kid and inheriting a sweetshop. It's easy to get carried away. There… — Gerry McGovern Copy Share Image
Federal regulations forbid delaying inspections for fracture-critical bridges like the fallen Minneapolis bridge - the kind with a lack of redundancy in… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
In their work, designers often become expert with the device they are designing. Users are often expert at the task they are… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
The exploitation agenda advocated by liberals is modeled after the dependency-inducing design of the drug dealer's business model: "We'll supply the first… — Angela McGlowan Copy Share Image
How a designer gets from thought to thing is, at least in broad strokes, straightforward: (1) A designer conceives a purpose. (2)… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that… — Eric Burdon Copy Share Image
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