Criteria Quote by Ivan Chermayeff

Good design today requires more vision (a larger point of view versus the single brilliant idea), more consistency (a deeper underlying structure of language…

— William Drenttel

If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.

— Guido van Rossum

Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style.

— Massimo Vignelli

Language designers want to design the perfect language. They want to be able to say, 'My language is perfect. It can do everything.' But…

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

Good design is a great combination of common sense, unusual imagination, clarity of purpose–with a prerequisite knowledge of structure, values, color, aesthetic insight and…

— Millard Sheets

The more that a person brings to design, the better his or her ability to communicate.

— Michael Vanderbyl

Design is just language and the real issue is what you use that language to do.

— Tibor Kalman

Good design means as little design as possible.

— Dieter Rams

Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.

— Larry Wall

Good design is a Renaissance attitude that combines tech, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something.

— Paola Antonelli

When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end.

— John Denham

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

— Dieter Rams