Design Quotes · Page 51

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

— John Maynard Keynes

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

— Michelle Obama

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

— John Maeda

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

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

— Luc de Clapiers

I consider video games a form of design that is amazingly important today and that is going to become even more important…

— Paola Antonelli

The big deal about the Internet design was you could have an arbitrary large number of networks so that they would all…

— Vint Cerf

Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.

— Cesar Pelli

Take a human body, a male and a female, it is obvious that certain parts are meant together. There is a purpose…

— Rick Warren

I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun…

— Flume

The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific…

— Arthur Eddington

Individuals reporting on their own experience with particular therapies would provide first-hand accounts that could be considered in the improvement of drug…

— Priyamvada Natarajan

The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can…

— Michelle Obama

I am not a great believer in dialectical struggle. I am much more of a fusion person. I see it as a…

— Marina Warner

'LaFerrari' means 'the Ferrari.' The excellence. In this car, we put everything we are able to do. Our extreme technology, extreme experience,…

— Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

The Keystone XL project has built strong safety measures into its design with the newest technology. Additionally, 80 percent of the new…

— John Hoeven

“Think of it this way: if you wandered into a cave and saw scratched into the wall some markings which on closer…

— Lewis N. Roe

The only real reason that I'd have for working for Hollywood is the fantastic amounts of money involved, and that isn't enough…

— Alan Moore

If I make a painting, it should be seen for what it's set out to do too. A lot of the things…

— Ken Done

My opening line to my students, and a recurring theme in my classes, was that the big design problem isn't designing a…

— Richard Saul Wurman

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

Our role is to imagine products that don't exist and guide them to life.

— Anonymous

I like playing sport. I'm a bit of a design enthusiast, and like spending time with my girlfriend and mates.

— Nick D'Aloisio

Whatever you design[/make/build], use it to raise the expectations of what can be achieved

— Paula Scher

I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain.

— Anne Lamott

If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.

— Edward de Bono

I'd love to design stuff that I'd like to wear and that other people could wear, too.

— Dionne Bromfield

I love the idea of web design that maximises expressiveness over functionality.

— Porter Robinson

I have a background in graphic design and have been designing t-shirt graphics for years.

— Manila Luzon

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

— Steve Jobs

How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?

— Kinky Friedman

My sense of designing is a mix of intuition and intellectual control.

— Olivier Theyskens