Design Quotes · Page 59

Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.

— Jane Jacobs

Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous.

— Ralph Caplan

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

— John Maeda

How do you design the product in a way so that it sells itself?.

— Regis McKenna

At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

Design is the key to everything. If you learn how to design you can do anything.

— Doug Cranmer

It is so important to be really true to yourself in design, and I am.

— Thom Browne

A failed experiment can be more important than a trivial design

— Verner Panton

I have been collecting pictures of airport carpets since the early 2000s because I am fascinated by their role as the world's…

— George Pendle

Traditional agriculture was labour intensive, industrial agriculture is energy intensive, and permaculture-designed systems are information and design intensive.

— David Holmgren

I don't think you make fans happy by just replicating frames. What they want to see is that you stayed true to…

— Sylvain White

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom…

— Arthur Erickson

In all situations where bad design decisions were made, people lacked some information that would have helped them make the right decision.

— Jared Spool

When we are totally faithful to our own individuality, we are actually following a very intricate design. This kind of freedom is…

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what…

— Jim Henson

My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make…

— Robert Moog

As opposed to a movie [Real Steel] where everything feels fantastical, it was really important to me, and I recognise it's not…

— Shawn Anthony Levy

What the computer can do in art and design has turned aesthetics on its head... with the computer, things are not so…

— Nicholas von Hoffman

When you're designing and inventing the way I did, every minute of your life is put - every neuron in your brain…

— Steve Wozniak

No design can exist in isolation. It is always related, sometimes in very complex ways, to an entire constellation of influencing situations…

— George Nelson

I'm anticlerical, not antireligion. If somebody believes there is God, I'm not interested in trying to persuade that person there is no…

— Katha Pollitt

“Therefore, the task of all Christian scholarship- not just biblical studies- is to study reality as a manifestation of God’s glory, to…

— John Piper

If we are fortunate, we one day find that person who impacts our world in such a way that our life is…

— Jim Rohn

I'm so immersed in my little world that I don't often sit back and pay attention to what's going on around me.…

— Marc Newson

I didn't want to be an actor. I wanted to design historical movies like 'Ben-Hur'. I saw this as my life.

— Dante Ferretti

You cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people.

— Dieter Rams

...you can look forward to reading - I swear this is true - Microsoft Bob for Dummies.

— Josh Quittner

To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.

— Jamie Zawinski

A garden without its statue is like a sentence without its verb.

— Joseph Beach

I'm a clown. I'm a comedian. Comedy, by design, is a place to explore the subconscious.

— Ramy Youssef

Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.

— John Cage

Design works if it's authentic, inspired, and has a clear point of view. It can't be a collection of input.

— Ron Johnson

Decide today to design and build the ideal relationship in your life. It's up to you.

— Brian Tracy

And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind.

— John Dryden

Life's cares are comforts; such by Heav'n design'd; He that hath none must make them, or be wretched.

— Edward Young

I'm representative of 21st century Irish design, so I promote Irishness all over the world wherever I go.

— Philip Treacy

...we take comfort in the symmetries we find in life because they suggest a design where there is none.

— Nicole Krauss

Gardens are the result of a collaboration between art and nature.

— Penelope Hobhouse

Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role.

— Dieter Rams

It is great to see kits designed specifically with us in mind.

— Fran Kirby