Design Quotes · Page 57

Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. Thomas Edison I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

— Ralph Lauren

If you look at WeWork as a brand I think the way we design has a more masculine vibe.

— Miguel McKelvey

The single biggest problem in design is finding out from the client what it is that they really want.

— Syd Mead

Working within the constraints of a problem is part of the fun and challenge of design.

— Ellen Lupton

A lot of the key to Apple's succes is Designing technology in order to hide it.

— Peter Thiel

I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title.

— John Romero

A design that I create is like my own extension. It's 'thinking made visible.'

— Gauri Khan

Since the design of the movement is paramount, shape, for me, should have no significance.

— George Rickey

Take a human body, a male and a female, it is obvious that certain parts are meant together. There is a purpose…

— Rick Warren

The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific…

— Arthur Eddington

I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun…

— Flume

The big deal about the Internet design was you could have an arbitrary large number of networks so that they would all…

— Vint Cerf

I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.

— Cesar Pelli

Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Any time you see signs or labels added to a device, it is an indication of bad design: a simple lock should…

— Donald A. Norman

If you dont design your own life plan, chances are youll fall into someone elses plan. And guess what they have planned…

— Jim Rohn

Deep down, creationists realize they will never win factual arguments with science. This is why they have construed their own science-like universe,…

— Frans de Waal

It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show…

— George Gilder

By divine design, men and women are intended to progress together toward perfection and a fulness of glory. Because of their distinctive…

— David A. Bednar

[...] we must start by inspiring our children with a sense of purpose...by nurturing their imagination so that they may dream big…

— Barack Obama

If we want to prevent another Cambridge Analytica from happening... that starts with regulating big tech beyond just data protection issues, but…

— Christopher Wylie

I love the fact that I work with everything that has to do with the brand, the product, the environment, the online,…

— Christopher Bailey

Designers are optimistic people who are trained to be courageous about the future—and making the future happen. They aren’t always aware of…

— Nathan Shedroff

Don't underestimate the therapeutic value of gardening. It's the one area where we can all use our nascent creative talents to make…

— Geoff Hamilton

If you don't have experience sewing, start with that, because that will inform what you are able to design.

— Tim Gunn

Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing.

— Bill Budge

Design is a process - an intimate collaboration between engineers, designers, and clients.

— Henry Dreyfuss

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

— David Hume

Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.

— Donna Karan

You can't take it with you. There are no pockets in a shroud.

— Elsie de Wolfe

I design differently because I am Patrick Kelly, and Patrick Kelly is black

— Patrick Kelly

Every designer has to stand behind and believe in what they are creating.

— Charlotte Ronson

For me, what people generally call sound design is just one component of orchestrating a score.

— Johann Johannsson

Designing a landscape is about connecting the body, soul and mind to the land itself.

— Kathryn Gustafson

I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.

— Yves Saint Laurent

We shouldn't be afraid to fail- if we are not failing we are not pushing.

— Jonathan Ive

For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme.

— Christian Lacroix

We don't want to be a design line. Ultimately, we want to be a platform that houses many design aesthetics.

— Alexa Hirschfeld

...we take comfort in the symmetries we find in life because they suggest a design where there is none.

— Nicole Krauss

I'm representative of 21st century Irish design, so I promote Irishness all over the world wherever I go.

— Philip Treacy