Airplane Quote by Henry Petroski

When you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first!

— Anonymous

The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be

— Paula Scher

There is no way to find the best design except to try out as many designs as possible and discard the failures.

— Freeman Dyson

Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

— Henry Petroski

“Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent…

— Lawrence Hargrave

A project without a critical path is like a ship without a rudder.

— Anonymous

There is in this Universe much of what seems to be design.

— Carl Sagan

Design is... above all an effort to improve reality... I always try to begin with considerations of its function... I ask myself, who needs…

— Gianfranco Frattini

The best kind of design isn't necessarily an object, a space, or a structure: it's a process- dynamic and adaptable.

— Donald A. Norman

To succeed in any endeavour it needs innovative plan & preparation. Without plan and preparation any endeavour is a boat without a sailor.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

The design is done when the problem goes away.

— Jason Fried

To design is to plan, to order, to relate, and to control. In short, it opposes all means of disorder and accident.

— Emil Ruder