Design Quote by Jens Martin Skibsted

My laboratory uses evolution to design new enzymes. No one really knows how to design them - they are tremendously complicated. But we are…

— Frances Arnold

“There are many approaches to prototyping, but they share a single, paradoxical feature: They slow us down to speed us up. By taking the…

— Tim Brown

“The reason such prototypes are sustainable, however briefly, and ultimately important is not their capacity to do what the technology is meant to do;…

— Tim Wu

Since an early age, I’ve been intrigued by the idea of design evolution,

— Phillip Lim

Mother Nature has been the best bioengineer in history. Why not harness the evolutionary process to design proteins?

— Frances Arnold

The nature of design is to synthesize disparate perspectives and create a richer end product through collaboration and iteration.

— Jens Martin Skibsted

The idea of being able to build things bottom up, atom by atom, has made [scientists] all into tinkerers. And all of a sudden…

— Paola Antonelli

About half of all design patterns out there [...] appear to be ways take perfectly natural design ideas and twist them to fit into…

— Steve Yegge

It's so important to work with material you can really mold and milk and create and evolve.

— Jamie Chung

We still have very little understanding of how we can tweak form or shape at the genetic level. We certainly haven't unlocked those secrets.

— Mitchell Joachim

evolution is a tinkerer, an ad-hocker, and a jury-rigger. It works with what it has on hand, not with what it has in mind.…

— Natalie Angier

Prototyping is the conversation you have with your ideas.

— Tom Wujec