With increasing fervor since the 1980s, sustainability has been the watchword of scientists, environmental activists, and indeed all those concerned about the… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
This, milord, is my family's axe. We have owned it for almost nine hundred years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The argument is not between adding features and simplicity, between adding capability and usability. The real issue is about design: designing things… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systems have been designed by committees and built as part of multipart… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
To grasp organizational life as it is, read novels (!) … It is my fervent belief that we will never design rational… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Lisp was far more powerful and flexible than any other language of its day; in fact, it is still a better design… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
Other people get into occupations by accident or design; but writers are born. I could work at selling motels, or slopping hogs,… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
We have seen so many exhibits in recent years where the exhibition design was aesthetically beautiful. In this case, if someone wants… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
You know, you have to do homework. You listen to who they are, what they do. I also compare it to designing… — Bruce Vilanch Copy Share Image
There is no other art medium like tattooing in the world. When the customer comes in with a basic idea, it is… — William Webb Copy Share Image
Modernism is an outmoded way of thinking about design: it just doesn't reflect the way we live now. It always puts forward… — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
Nearly all inventions are not recognised for their positive side either when they're made. So, for example, scientists didn't go out to… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
There has to be the popcorn genre element, or I don't engage the same way. I like action and vehicle design and… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
You don't have to know anything about a subject as long as you use common sense and imagination, plus enthusiasm! I use… — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“A person is not a closed system, they can never be fully self-sufficient. We need each other because we cannot make everything… — Frank Chimero Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be well-rounded. I do not admire well-rounded people nor their work. So far as I can see, nothing… — Harry Crews Copy Share Image
I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the African ones were fractal. And if you think… — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
I have always been interested in fashion as an informing design discipline: proportion structure, detail, materiality, texture, color and quality. With a… — Charles Gwathmey Copy Share Image
I would say it was the directors. We have to give credit to the directors for this, because in the script, we… — Cinco Paul Copy Share Image
What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful . . . Great designers also pursue… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
I had no special training at all; I am completely self-taught. I don’t fit the mold of a visual arts designer or… — Toru Iwatani Copy Share Image
I majored in illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design, although I never had any intention of being an illustrator and… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
Most people assume because I'm an actor that's all I know about and care about, I'm actually a camera geek and a… — Matt Ross Copy Share Image
I suppose the most marked example of color as structure is in the Byzantine use of mosaic decoration that becomes architecture. The… — Van Day Truex Copy Share Image
A design may be called organic when there is an harmonious organization of the parts within the whole, according to structure, material,… — Eliot Noyes Copy Share Image
If I had to design a mechanism for the express purpose of destroying a child's natural curiosity and love of pattern-making, I… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the… — Leo Ryan Copy Share Image
I was first drawn to active wear because I enjoy working out, and it's very important in this day in age. I… — Stella McCartney Copy Share Image
The products we design are going to be ridden in, sat upon, looked at, talked into, activated, operated, or in some way… — Henry Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
Designing a station with artificial gravity would undoubtedly be a daunting task. Space agencies would have to re-examine many reliable technologies under… — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
Thousands of engineers can design bridges, calculate strains and stresses, and draw up specifications for machines, but the great engineer is the… — Eugene Grace Copy Share Image
Higher minimum wages, full-employment programs, early-childhood education: Those kinds of programs are, by design, universal, but by definition, because they are helping… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The noble person who has eaten of his lord's bounty should die in his lord's battles; to return to one's home dead… — Zhou Yu Copy Share Image
Intelligent Design is a remarkably uncreative theory that abandons the search for understanding at the very point where it is most needed.… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The more I learnt about this cheeky - almost rebellious - company, the more it appealed to me, as it unapologetically pointed… — Jonathan Ive Copy Share Image
As we survey all the evidence, the thought insistently arises that some supernatural agency-or, rather, Agency-must be involved. Is it possible that… — George Greenstein Copy Share Image
Engineers are not the only professional designers. Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
We believe it is essential to establish federal emission reduction targets that can vary by state or region with policy flexibility for… — Charlie Baker Copy Share Image
Walking is a skill that took millions of years for us to develop... If you wanted to design a robot that could… — David Pogue Copy Share Image
