Design Quotes · Page 27

Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers.

— Seth Godin

If we design the environment properly, it will permit child and man to develop safely and to behave logically.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

I can see hope inside it." Rachel ran her fingers over the ceramic designs. "So fragile.

— Rick Riordan

If you think you're meeting your destiny on the other side of a door you may not be interested in its design.

— Ettore Sottsass

Writing code is not production, it's not always craftsmanship though it can be, it's design.

— Joel Spolsky

Always tell only the truth, and all the truth, and do so promptly - right now.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Ethical systems and practices need to look good. They have to be desirable, well-designed and work well.

— Adrian Grenier

It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

When I was young, all we ever heard about was functionalism, functionalism, functionalism. It’s not enough. Design should also be sensual and…

— Ettore Sottsass

Always remember the essence of Christian holiness is simplicity and purity: one design, one desire: entire devotion to God.

— John Wesley

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as…

— Marcus Aurelius

I do make my own brushes and have done so for many years. I'm constantly refining the designs, trying new materials, re-configuring…

— James Nares

I say I design music. I can imagine it and sort of picture it. I think about all of the things I…

— Saint Jhn

When I meet celebrities, I have to know what they are like and only then can I design. The clothes have to…

— Donatella Versace

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me,…

— Steve Jobs

The best American manufacturers customize products to meet customer needs, reduce the time required to make them and constantly improve their design.

— Ro Khanna

A person taking stock in middle age is like an artist or composer looking at an unfinished work; but whereas the composer…

— Harry S. Broudy

Tradition, history and respect; that kind of qualities I admire, that I want to see preserved. Time is the only commodity that…

— Randy Pausch

I try to keep feeling what's going on and try to use the camera, the actors and the design to enhance those…

— Ira Sachs

An artist is a prophet and seer, not a paint craftsman or design maker, or reporter or entertainer... the artist has the…

— Morris Graves

To be sure, many of the Sykes-Picot borders reflected deals cut in Europe rather than local demographic or historical realities. But that…

— Richard N. Haass

Of course, to publish something, you have to write it, polish it, then hire out the line editing, copy editing and cover…

— Ruth Glick

Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values. On…

— Samuel Mockbee

And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their…

— John Locke

Designing bridal is perfect for me, because black is my least favorite color, if you could call it a color.

— Lela Rose

Great design alone isn't going to yield the results investors are expecting.

— Angela Ahrendts

Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.

— Tim Ferriss

By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.

— John Tenniel

The key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale.

— Elon Musk

Sound design is always critical, especially when you're doing a thriller with a lot of suspense and tension.

— Sam Esmail

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

— Milton Glaser

Any design, whether it's for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.

— Henry Petroski

All-around 21st-century artist the great Kanye West at Design Miami/ Basel

— Simon de Pury

Bottom line: government shouldn't be a bottleneck for entrepreneurs looking to design a better mousetrap.

— Ajit Pai

I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.

— William Landay

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

— Raymond Chandler

Design implies a sense of mapping something out and then you follow the plan.

— Andy Goldsworthy

If an artist comes intuitively from the point of design, notan - lightness/darkness - is natural.

— Sara Genn

Designing is not a profession but an attitude... Thinking in relationships.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens.

— Bill Watterson