Design Quotes · Page 35

Spare functional furniture, in my opinion, is the genius of 20th-century design.

— Luca Guadagnino

But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .

— John Maynard Keynes

Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately.

— John Maeda

What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful...

— Michelle Obama

You can't have a single design for all cities. The look and feel of the streetlights are very important.

— Frans van Houten

“Art is a spirit and soul thing. Anything else is mere desperation.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.

— Bjarne Stroustrup

Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I think as designers we realize design is a signal of intention, but it also has to occur within a world and…

— William McDonough

God involves us in his missions not because He needs us, but because He loves us. And in His mercy He has…

— David Platt

Whoever's designing for plus-size doesn't get it. The entire garment needs to be reconceived. You can't just take a size 8 and…

— Tim Gunn

A gentle mixture of furniture expresses life and continuity but it must be a judicious mixture that flows and mixes well. It…

— Nancy Lancaster

The legislator should keep two things constantly before his eyes: 1. The pure theory developed to its minutest details; 2. The particular…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as…

— Mary Catherine Bateson

Lines slip easily down the accustomed grooves. The old designs are copied so glibly that we are half inclined to think them…

— Virginia Woolf

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that…

— Philip Johnson

Apple's goal isn't to make money. Our goal is to design and develop and bring to market good products... We trust as…

— Steve Jobs

The demise of Google Reader, if logical, is a reminder of how far we've come from the cuddly old 'I'm Feeling Lucky'…

— James Fallows

“As part of an effort to prod college seniors to get tetanus shots, a group of students was given a lecture meant…

— Gary Belsky

One of my fondest memories was when I was in London as a young, independent businesswoman and stayed at Claridge's. I knew…

— Diane von Furstenberg

The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these…

— E. B. White

When you buy things that are expensive, like a sofa or something that really feels like an investment, you need to keep…

— Nate Berkus

Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of…

— Ivy Baker Priest

I wanted to be a sneaker designer since I was 10; it was my dream to work at Nike and design signature…

— Kerby Jean-Raymond

We have neither the strength nor the opportunity to accomplish all the good and all the evil which we design.

— Luc de Clapiers

The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.

— Claude Monet

“the good design is the one not following absolutely fashion trends”

— CaberlonCaroppi Hotel Design

I believe in doing the thing you feel is right. If it looks right, it is right.

— Dorothy Draper

I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.

— Robin Day

“It’s never too late to design the life you love. —Lysa TerKeurst”

— Chrystal Evans Hurst

“he tried to design his life in such a way that no woman could move in with a suitcase”

— Milan Kundera

My actual first summer internship was in the design department of Clinique.

— Aerin Lauder

My own style is pretty classic; I much prefer to design for others.

— Colleen Atwood

They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.

— Christian Lacroix

You can go from creating the design on your iPad to making the object on your MakerBot.

— Bre Pettis

A design remedy that prevents bugs is always preferable to a test method that discovers them.

— Boris Beizer

We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely - and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.

— Timothy Keller

A man fashions ill for himself who fashions ill for another, and the ill design is most ill for the designer.

— Hesiod

The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995.

— Charles Bass

Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.

— Jef Raskin