“The problem with engineers today is that they don’t think on paper.” — Joseph R. Lallo Copy Share Image
Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous. — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
Design is the key to everything. If you learn how to design you can do anything. — Doug Cranmer Copy Share Image
The task for us now, if we are to survive, is to build the earth. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a hardware engineer. That seems like a terrible job. — Brianna Wu Copy Share Image
Designing a car involves a lot of technical know-how as opposed to designing clothes. — Nandita Mahtani Copy Share Image
Walking the streets of Porto and speaking with the top engineers at Veniam, I am struck by the passion that they bring… — Grant Imahara Copy Share Image
[An engineer's] invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from… — Carl Mitcham Copy Share Image
There can be little question that the tall building presents one of the most difficult challenges to the architect. — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
I think Pixar's done an amazing job integrating art and science. They really get this idea that art and engineering work side… — Joe Gebbia 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.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint. — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
Urban design is where the number are and easy size of installation plus the fast lessons to extend out to larger design… — Geoff Lawton Copy Share Image
I am not a politician. I am an engineer who has spent most of his career working in factories that manufacture the… — Brian Krzanich Copy Share Image
I object to the hegemony of form in contemporary architecture. We have very advanced technological tools, but ultimately, we create buildings exactly… — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
“Three bricklayers were working on the same building. When asked what they were doing, the first answered grumpily, “I’m laying bricks.” The… — Christy Wright Copy Share Image
On 'MythBusters,' a lot of what we do does not fall into any category of things we have ever done before. There's… — Grant Imahara Copy Share Image
I look for individuality in the artisans I work with for CoutureLab; a loving relationship with the product and care in the… — Carmen Busquets Copy Share Image
Whatever prestige the bourgeoisie may today be willing to grant to fragmentary or deliberately retrograde artistic tentatives, creation can now be nothing… — Gil J Wolman Copy Share Image
I design for the use of a building and the place and for the people who use it... the reputation for arrogance… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
Architecture exhibits the greatest extent of the difference from nature which may exist in works of art. It involves all the powers… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Solomon Cordwell Buenz has become Oakland’s most active designer of towers, thanks to its cost-conscious design approach and relationship with developers. Oz… — Oz Erickson Copy Share Image
If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“In design, one of the most difficult activities is to get the specifications right:” — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Calling an engineer an applied scientist is like calling an artistic painter an applied pigment chemist — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
To design something really new and innovative you have to reject reason. — Jonathan Ive Copy Share Image
“The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.” —Leonardo da Vinci” — Katy Bowman Copy Share Image
“It used to be said "Build it and they will come," now it is "Build it and bribe them in".” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
I've been fascinated with interior design for as long as I can remember. — Matthew Williamson Copy Share Image