When I was little, I wanted to be a civil engineer. Not a ballerina, not a doctor, a civil engineer. I was… — Bitsie Tulloch Copy Share Image
Audiophiles don't use their equipment to listen to your music. Audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipment. — Alan Parsons Copy Share Image
The so-called ‘crank’ may be quite original in his ideas. … Invention, however, in the engineering sense involves originality; but not that… — Elihu Thomson Copy Share Image
When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology,… — Cameron Sinclair Copy Share Image
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required. — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Manufacturing doesn't just mean building cars and metal-bashing; it includes making pharmaceuticals and hi-tech electronics. A crucial part of the process is… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Design is a matter of balancing different needs and outlooks-practical and aesthetic, masculine and feminine, designer and client, dream and reality. — Alexa Hampton Copy Share Image
Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos,… — Clement Mok Copy Share Image
“If I were king, I would redress an abuse which cuts back, as it were, one half of human kind. I would… — Émilie Du Châtelet Copy Share Image
The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a… — Michael Hansmeyer Copy Share Image
The world of design has been subjugated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production. — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing. — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Building cars is highly specialized, it's hard, and it's capital intensive. — Karl Iagnemma Copy Share Image
“People love to design and create things, whether clothing, creatures, buildings, cities, or planets. They also love to customize a basic template… — Ernest Adams Copy Share Image
I've always wanted my work to be more available. I had this vision when I was younger of wanting to replace all… — Robert Lee Morris Copy Share Image
“Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure.” — Melvyn Conway Copy Share Image