Design Quotes · Page 27

“Express Yourself to Design your Life, you are here to "be you" not someone else...”

— Luvic

“Small, noncomparative, highly labeled data sets usually belong in tables.”

— Edward R. Tufte

Improving your process won't move you from good to great design. It'll move you from bad to average.

— Fred Brooks

“If the statistics are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers.”

— Edward Tufte

It is in the contrast of light and dark that design happens.

— Helen Van Wyk

I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.

— Prabal Gurung

I think psychoanalyze-pinhead is the important lesson of GNU Emacs.

— Todd Bennett

In designing a lifestyle brand, you have to know more than just designing clothes.

— Tommy Hilfiger

When Van Truex defined the difference between designing and decorating, he used the analogy of preparing a roast of beef. Design, he…

— Albert Hadley

I like to hike and cook. I enjoy furniture and design - not making it, just looking at it. I'm always kind…

— Kevin Bacon

I love furniture. And I thought, why are we not seeing who's making the cool new coffee table and these new designs…

— Ellen DeGeneres

Innovation is often the ability to reach into the past and bring back what is good, what is beautiful, what is useful,…

— Sister Parish

The backgrounds by design are a very key part of the conversation, because I want a kind of fight or pressure to…

— Kehinde Wiley

We are not the only avatars of humanity. Once our computing machines achieved self-consciousness, they became part of this design.

— Anonymous

We must stop constantly fighting for human rights and equal justice in an unjust system, and start building a society where equal…

— Jacque Fresco

I have a company that does design and animation, so obviously graffiti is definitely an intricate part of what we admire and…

— Mick Ebeling

I've had to make time to really explore all the amazing things that are out and try to understand the history of…

— Christopher Jackson

If I thought about planning, I'd plan movies. If I thought about planning my life, I'd plan my life more rationally, not…

— Paul Morrissey

Anytime that knowledge and a version of the truth are considered to be absolute, fundamentalism is the result, whether the arena is…

— Anonymous

Now architecture consists of order, which in Greek is called taxis ... Order is the balanced adjustment of the details of the…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Prayer does not mean that I am to bring God down to my thoughts and my purposes, and bend his government according…

— Dwight L. Moody

Good design, at least part of the time, includes the criterion of being direct in relation to the problem at hand -…

— Ivan Chermayeff

I think the whole thing that Jamie [Hyneman] and I have in working together is that we are constantly simplifying each other's…

— Adam Savage

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

There is no such thing as a complete lack of order, only a design so vast it appears unrepetitive up close.

— Louise Erdrich

When I direct I try to keep it a unique design of my own. Naturally you're influenced.

— Anthony Hopkins

It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.

— George Edmund Street

After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either

— Bjarne Stroustrup

We designers have been working to stimulate people's souls and minds.

— Naoto Fukasawa

Even though designing your own show, that's great, I am nothing without the support around me.

— Brandy Norwood

A 'god' who's will is resisted, designs frustrated, and purpose checkmated, possesses no title to Deity.

— Anonymous

We're very genuinely designing the best products that we can for people.

— Jonathan Ive

Symbols are oracular forms-mysterious patterns creating vortices in the substances of the invisible world.

— Manly Hall

People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.

— Calvin Klein

I don't place much faith in my intuitions, except as a starting place for designing experiments.

— Elizabeth Spelke

Doing designs on a loom takes a lot of talent and experience, and, trust me, I won't be able to do that.

— Liya Kebede

Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.

— Seth Godin

It turns out it's not rocket science to design a sacred space.

— Greg Lynn

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.

— Thomas Keneally

A design career is a process of learning better and better what you know instinctively.

— Mario Bellini