Design Quotes · Page 37

Nine out of ten businesses fail; so I came up with a foolproof plan - create ten businesses.

— Robert Kiyosaki

You have to have great design to be competitive in today’s markets.

— John Doerr

We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.

— Elsie de Wolfe

Wonderbra is such an iconic brand with strong design values and great sense of humour.

— Jenny Packham

We still seek to solve conflicts with 'judgement' instead of designing the way forwards.

— Edward de Bono

We're not here for a long time, we're here for a good time / Reach For the Sky, 'cause tomorrow may never come.

— Mike Ness

My inspiration for interior design is more historical than traditional.

— Patrick Cox

Market-driven design builds the success of the product's marketing into the product itself.

— Seth Godin

Creativity is to discover a question that has never been asked. If one brings up an idiosyncratic question, the answer he gives…

— Kenya Hara

The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

I guess my goal is to design my own walker. The walkers with the big tennis balls, no one wants to use…

— Abbey Curran

There must be a judicious arrangement of all the parts. Considered conversely, the artist's task is to fill his panel with a…

— Walter J. Phillips

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

— Stephen Gardiner

“Designers love subtle cues, because subtlety is one of the traits of sophisticated design. But Web users are generally in such a…

— Steve Krug

Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.

— Anonymous

If you take away the fancy graphics of today's games, most of the time you're left with a shell of a game…

— Herman Leonard

I'm not thinking about the next record really yet. I kind of want to do a bunch of stuff with Jonathan Zawada,…

— Flume

The math you need for most of finance is ninth-grade algebra, and most people feel reasonably comfortable with that. But I think…

— Sal Khan

It's really important for me that we work with the best factories and factories that are really thoughtful in their design and…

— Ben Francis

I would urge everyone to start looking at the world in a different way. Spend some time looking at everyday objects, at…

— Martin Parr

In architecture it isn't enough to just have the right building that works well. It can also be beautiful. It can also…

— Oscar Niemeyer

Good design is a matter of discipline. It starts by looking at the problem and collecting all the available information about it.…

— Massimo Vignelli

I am thrilled to be working with Lane Bryant on this collaboration. Designing apparel women can feel confident and beautiful in has…

— Lela Rose

Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as…

— Vera Wang

If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an "information architect" and only use Helvetica.

— David Carson

No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house.

— John Ruskin

There's no reason for unhappiness if you're living with nice design.

— Isaac Mizrahi

Many new churches, I regret to say, can be described from the design point of view only as holy terrors.

— Robin Boyd

Great web design without functionality is like a sports car with no engine.

— Paul Cookson

Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.

— Anthony Burgess

Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.

— Alan Cooper

One of the most significant design principles is to omit the unimportant in order to emphasize the important.

— Dieter Rams

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

— Mary Astell

I'm going to design again, but I come back when it's the right project, so I keep my passion for it intact.

— Hedi Slimane

Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.

— Patti Smith

Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them.

— Ralph Caplan

Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death.

— Carl Sandburg

You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future

— Edward de Bono

Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.

— Saul Bass