Design Quotes · Page 37

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

— David Hockney

I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.

— Anonymous

So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.

— Debi Thomas

The more uninteresting the letter, the more useful it is to the typographer.

— Piet Zwart

The fusion of art and technology that we call interface design.

— Steven Johnson

A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work.

— Steve McConnell

Italian design is a global excellence, on a par with food, culture, cinema, and, more generally, lifestyle.

— Paolo Gentiloni

When I design, I think about the desire someone might have for it and why. I want them to fall in love…

— Jenny Packham

Simple messages travel faster, simpler designs reach the market faster and the elimination of clutter allows faster decision making.

— Jack Welch

...wisdom is in large part the knowledge of how to avoid doing dumb things, and thus grows globally as a function of…

— Tim Bray

Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.

— Oliver Sacks

For me, typography is a triangular relationship between design idea, typographic elements, and printing technique.

— Wolfgang Weingart

Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as…

— Michael Pollan

Governments and civil society must step up to ensure inclusivity in the commissioning, design, delivery, and assessment of vital public services.

— Winnie Byanyima

We are very proud of our design for the Transbay Transit Center. This will be a beautiful, functional and sustainable building for…

— Cesar Pelli

And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course,…

— Daniel Libeskind

Now there are a few things with a shelter - like with noise control, don't face dog runs facing each other that…

— Temple Grandin

Ultimately, we are deluding ourselves if we think that the products that we design are the ‘things’ that we sell, rather than…

— Bill Buxton

Yet is it possible in terms of the motion of atoms to explain how men can invent an electric motor, or design…

— Arthur Compton

The actual assertion that the Census Bureau could behave in such a way as to tilt things one way or the other…

— Kenneth Prewitt

We have now in our possession three instruments of civilization, unknown to antiquity. These are the art of printing; free representative government;…

— Edward Everett

One of the things about working for an old school studio like Warner Bros. is that there is an institutional culture and…

— Bruno Heller

Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and…

— Marc Newson

One has freedom as the principal means of action; the other has servitude. Their . . . paths [are] diverse; nevertheless, each…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I'm going to design the container and interior spaces. You bring your own stuff to it and make it your own.

— Frank Gehry

Obama really changed the way in which design can be used effectively for a candidate.

— Debbie Millman

Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design.

— Anton Corbijn

Learning research tells us that the time lag from experiment to feedback is critical ...

— Kent Beck

To create great work, here's how you must spend your time: 1% Inspiration 9% Perspiration 90% Justification

— George Lois

Cisco has not and does not design products for the purpose of political censorship.

— Marc Chandler

The low desire, the base design That makes another's virtues less.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Some people design buildings and aircraft carriers and cars - and I designed picks.

— Rick Nielsen

“There is no design so good that it can't be messed up by bad implementation.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response.

— Liz Phair

Just just because there are flaws in aircraft design that doesn't mean flying carpets exist.

— Ben Goldacre

Real web designers write code. Always have, always will.

— Jeffrey Zeldman

Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems.

— Tim Brown

“Good designs are in special places for those who has appreciation; bad designs are everywhere.”

— Baris Gencel

You just can't beat slip covers for giving that friendly air hospitals need so desperately.

— Dorothy Draper

I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.

— Quinn Shephard