Design Quotes · Page 46

Java development without a little heresy would be a dull place, and a dangerous one.

— Bruce Tate

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.

— John Steinbeck

Effective communication is a key factor in the success of your product.

— Jesse James Garrett

I seem to always start a collection by designing outerwear and jackets.

— Alexander Wang

I want to explore my design philosophy in different mediums, and I'm very interested in architecture.

— John Rocha

All of the people in my building are insane. The guy above me designs synthetic hairballs for ceramic cats.

— Steven Wright

A business woman needs a successful mix of design and practicality.

— Donatella Versace

Many new churches, I regret to say, can be described from the design point of view only as holy terrors.

— Robin Boyd

There are cases where you design something that looks good on paper and there's only one small part of it that's fun.…

— Brent Iverson

Books woke me up. Books are my favorite man-made objects. I fetishize their design, smell, feel. And that they can contain such…

— Ken Baumann

I want to design my own clothing line. I'm very into fashion. It's something I really want to focus on when swimming…

— Ryan Lochte

In its heyday, the car was an expression of technical flair and design genius: the original Mini, the Beetle, the 2CV, and…

— Martin Jacques

Above all, John Galliano menswear is all about good design. And men have been short-changed by good design for too long.

— John Galliano

The best design teams are not people who are exactly the same...otherwise you're just sitting and telling, 'You're fabulous.' 'No, you're fabulous.'

— Michael Kors

I haven't even had a life I could call my own, and you're ready to slot me into the grand design. Well,…

— Clive Barker

The reason why most people face the future with apprehension instead of anticipation is because they don't have it well designed!

— Jim Rohn

Surprisingly, the Eisenhower Memorial design contains almost none of the known Gehry-box of tricks. His giant etched chain-link curtain, first applied in…

— Leon Krier

Science starts with preconception, with the common culture, and with common sense. It moves on to observation, is marked by the discovery…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

“To design, to code, to write is to embrace danger, to plunge ahead into the unknown, making new things out of constantly…

— Anonymous

When it comes to designing your first apartment, I think people get overwhelmed and end up collecting pieces that don't always mesh…

— Karlie Kloss

…God is a giant quiltmaker. With an infinite variety of designs. And the quilt is grown so big and confusing, the pattern…

— Rohinton Mistry

I wanted to be a writer as a teen... so storytelling was my first love. In my late teens, design became an…

— Yves Behar

Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their desires,…

— Nathanael Emmons

There is a simple way to become buddha: When you refrain from unwholesome actions, are not attached to birth and death, and…

— Dogen

Great web design without functionality is like a sports car with no engine.

— Paul Cookson

One of the most significant design principles is to omit the unimportant in order to emphasize the important.

— Dieter Rams

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

— Mary Astell

Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.

— Alan Cooper

Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.

— Anthony Burgess

There's no reason for unhappiness if you're living with nice design.

— Isaac Mizrahi

Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house.

— John Ruskin

The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture.

— Jeff Smith

Design has become the cover for unnecessary consumption.

— Peter Saville

Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.

— Saul Bass

You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future

— Edward de Bono

Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death.

— Carl Sandburg

Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them.

— Ralph Caplan

I'm going to design again, but I come back when it's the right project, so I keep my passion for it intact.

— Hedi Slimane

Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.

— Patti Smith

Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld