Design Quotes · Page 47

If you are truly innovating, you don't have a prototype you can refer to.

— Jonathan Ive

I cannot see ... evidence of design and beneficence ... There seems to me too much misery in the world.

— Charles Darwin

When I design something, I think of it as a gift to somebody else.

— Eva Zeisel

I design my start-up ventures around my own personal beliefs and values.

— Cindy Gallop

If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design.

— Ralf Speth

Design is the art of planning, and it is the art of making things possible.

— Paula Scher

I've always felt that the placement of a man's testicles is an eloquent argument against intelligent design.

— Mark Lawrence

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

— Samuel Johnson

On the other hand, if people are made safer, more efficient, more comfortable – or just plain happier – by contact with…

— Henry Dreyfuss

Design is a matter of balancing different needs and outlooks-practical and aesthetic, masculine and feminine, designer and client, dream and reality.

— Alexa Hampton

My earliest interest in game design came when I was in primary school, and my parents bought a Commodore 128 computer. I…

— Brendan Myers

I studied computer science and graphic design, yeah, so music was self-taught and a backburner thing, an obsessive hobby.

— Tycho

I'm convinced that without bad design, the world would be a far less stimulating place; we would have nothing to marvel over…

— Carrie Fulton Phillips

Designers need to be more than ambassadors, they need to be fully functioning and fully aware members of strategic decision-making teams in…

— Nathan Shedroff

I don't listen to music when designing. We create in silence. I go through a torturous process because everything has to be…

— Francisco Costa

Individuals reporting on their own experience with particular therapies would provide first-hand accounts that could be considered in the improvement of drug…

— Priyamvada Natarajan

Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action…

— Ice Cube

The combination of threads, remote-procedure-call interfaces, and heavyweight object-oriented design is especially dangerous... if you are ever invited onto a project that…

— Eric S. Raymond

I was inspired by the androgyny of Yohji Yamanoto's designs to translate the clothing's dualities onto screen and image. I was playing…

— Collier Schorr

A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they…

— Steve Jobs

I think it's really cool that videogames are getting more and more sophisticated and believable, and that people who worked on movies…

— Mark Walton

I'm not a mother of children, but I'm a different type of mother where my approach to design is more in line…

— Neri Oxman

I have never engineered a record. I will draw a record and I'll show you what it's gonna look like. And I…

— Goldie

Here's what I like about God: Trees are crooked, mountains are lumpy, a lot of his creatures are funny looking, and he…

— Julia Cameron

“I write because I must. I design because I can. Changing the world, one word at a time.”

— Jo Michaels

It was not the story of design or clothes, it was the fantasy of women that made me want to work in…

— Alber Elbaz

There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.

— Eric Gill

Criticism per se does not worry me. I've always solicited it as part of the design process.

— Rem Koolhaas

I studied video game design. The one thing I knew for sure about myself is I didn't want to study acting.

— Dylan Sprouse

It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.

— Camille Paglia

There is no way to find the best design except to try out as many designs as possible and discard the failures.

— Freeman Dyson

I love to see technology from a design perspective and vice versa. I am a 'Desigineer.'

— Pranav Mistry

I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.

— Gianni Versace

Why would you design something if it didn't improve the human condition?

— Niels Diffrient

Good design is long-lasting! It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated…

— Dieter Rams

I might want to open a hotel and design all the rooms. Or maybe a museum that lets me curate all the…

— Theophilus London

I’m a bit of a design enthusiast, and like spending time with my girlfriend and mates.

— Nick D'Aloisio

I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.

— Rachel Roy

The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern.

— Milan Kundera

Design is more important than technology in most consumer applications.

— Dave McClure