The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I am still ready to shake hands with anyone who designs a better assault rifle than mine. — Mikhail Kalashnikov Copy Share Image
The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness. — Massimo Vignelli Copy Share Image
Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
When I started designing in school, I discovered that I had a knack for it. I fell completely in love with architecture,… — Cesar Pelli Copy Share Image
Design is a conscious and intuitive effort to impose meaningful order. Design is both the underlying matrix of order and the tool… — Victor Papanek Copy Share Image
I've no grand designs to conquer the music industry, but I'd love to be able to tell my mates that I'm playing… — Luke Treadaway Copy Share Image
Innovation comes ultimately from a diversity of perspectives. So when you combine ideas from different industries or different cultures, that's when you… — Frans Johansson Copy Share Image
Bridges would not be safer if only people who knew the proper definition of a real number were allowed to design them. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In a way, advertising, for all its shallowness, its love of design, its modishness and its self-justification, is curiously innocent. The idea… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designing - at least… — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
What's nice about experiments is that they are much more closely tied to what theorists think about the world than normal empirical… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
Rather, the master question from which the mission of education research is derived: What should be taught to whom, and with what… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
The gays like 'Project Runway' because it's a fashion, and the gays are into fashion and into design. It's a creative industry,… — Christian Siriano Copy Share Image
I get to do something that millions of people across the world are going to see and enjoy and have fun with.… — Pat Lawlor Copy Share Image
My upringing did influence me to a certain extent. I grew up going to private school, and we'd have these really cute… — Minnie Mortimer Copy Share Image
Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections. Let these influencing powers… — Daniel Boone Copy Share Image
Could we design an all-glass building with internal channels and networks for airflow and water circulation? Can we surpass the great modern… — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
What I love most about Her Majesty is that she has kept hats alive in people's minds for more than 60 years.… — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
We get to design what we want to see in the world rather than doing what other people think should be done. — Jack Dorsey Copy Share Image
Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one. — Carlos Ghosn Copy Share Image
I didnt think that personal style had much value in graphic design. — Stefan Sagmeister Copy Share Image
The first thing one learns about typography & type design is that these rules are made to be broken. — Jeffery Keedy Copy Share Image
It is impossible to design anything that is foolproof because fools are so ingenious. — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither. — Tara Hunt Copy Share Image
Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice. — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar. — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
I did a brief stint with set design and stage design. And I tried playwriting, too. — Damaris Phillips Copy Share Image
Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process. — Maria Sharapova Copy Share Image
Designers are inherently optimistic people who try to make the world a better place — William McDonough Copy Share Image
A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
