Asks Quote by Helmut Jahn

“it provokes him to think that his profession will become the exclusive province of programmers, mechanics, engineers, and the autonomous systems they design.”

— Linda Nagata

The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to…

— Herbert Simon

“When an engineer wants to do something, he will do it”

— Sherif Saad Mosa alAnsari

The good designer aims at a perfect fusion of the various considerations which enter into his design. He aims at an untortured unity-a direct…

— Leo Lionni

A designer…has the true responsibility to give his audiences not what they think they want, for this is almost invariably the usual, the accustomed,…

— Lester Beall

Engineers are not the only professional designers. Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. The intellectual…

— Herbert Simon

Good designers must always be avant-gardists, always one step ahead of the times. They should – and must – question everything generally thought to…

— Dieter Rams

“In my experience, the best engineers are those who excel at these fundamentals and are able to break down complex problems into very simple…

— Richard Ladbrooke

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

— Freeman Thomas

A designer must always think about the unfortunate production engineer who will have to manufacture what you have designed; try to understand his problems.

— Raymond Loewy

No engineer can go upon a new work and not find something peculiar, that will demand his careful reflection, and the deliberate consideration of…

— Anonymous

“The alternative to good design is bad design, not no design at all.”

— Anonymous