The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them. — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course,… — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
The scientist and the artist are both passionate about their exploration. What leads to my work is that I'm equally an artist… — Arthur Ganson Copy Share Image
Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay… — Tom Schulman Copy Share Image
Everybody is headed for the same place, and they are headed on the same train, and under the same engineer. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Modern genetic engineering makes producing GMO food products relatively easy. GMOs can improve crop yield and greatly enhance the nutritional value of… — Richard J. Roberts Copy Share Image
“In my experience, the best engineers are those who excel at these fundamentals and are able to break down complex problems into… — Richard Ladbrooke Copy Share Image
“The word “Building” makes a completed structure seem under construction. Once a building is finished, it should be called a “Built.” Similarly,… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
In a world where concepts are so often deployed in an ad hoc fashion, half explored before being displaced by others, it… — Marilyn Strathern Copy Share Image
I don't like building, I'm not a carpenter, I don't like constructions particularly and things like that, but placements and the kinds… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
“I wanted to study graphic design, because I wanted to work in an office with designer desks, ergonomic chairs, pool tables, and… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of… — Fritz Todt Copy Share Image
I never designed before. I wasn't formally trained in design, I went to photography school at the ICP. But over time, I… — Minnie Mortimer Copy Share Image
Nuclear weapons need large facilities, but genetic engineering can be done in a small lab. You can't regulate every lab in the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction… — Wilbur Wright Copy Share Image
I went to college and did advanced electronical engineering, not really knowing what I wanted to do. It bored me to death,… — Michael Bisping Copy Share Image
Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
Every time I've flown an aircraft, or visited a steelworks, or watched a panel-beater at work, I've learned something new that can… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
“In your lifetime you build two buildings, one of accomplishment, the other of failure, and only you can decide how big each… — Collin Johnson Copy Share Image
The design of everyday things is in great danger of becoming the design of superfluous, overloaded, unnecessary things. — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates… — Mike Davidson Copy Share Image
The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the 'engineering of consent' by one of the founders of the modern… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
The Romans spent the next 200 years using their great engineering skill to construct ruins all over Europe. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture,… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
We try to solve the problem by rushing through the design process so that enough time is left at the end of… — Glenford Myers Copy Share Image
What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
Not everything is design. But design is about everything. So do yourself a favor: be ready for anything. — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of… — Fritz Todt Copy Share Image
If you surround yourself with people who are trying to build, who are all willing to build other people up, they build… — Blake Roney Copy Share Image
“I walk through the glass doors and into the lobby, which is floor-to-ceiling glass and steel. This fascinates me to no end,… — Fanny Merkin Copy Share Image
I never pondered during my struggling phase that I should have become an engineer, as I knew that was not my life.… — Vicky Kaushal Copy Share Image
The role of design at a company is to allow you to recreate yourself, to allow your company to find a new… — Mark Parker Copy Share Image
When we're dealing with historic buildings, we don't replicate, but we try to be subordinate and be deferential to them. — Peter Clewes Copy Share Image
“All we know about the new economic world tells us that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers.… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
Beware the engineers of society, I say, who would make everyone in all the world equal. Opportunitty should be equal, must be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't look at a lot of design. I try to stay focused on making sculptural art pieces and somehow translating them… — Fernando Mastrangelo Copy Share Image
