Design Quote by William McDonough Download Open image “Design is inherently optimistic. That is its power.” — William McDonough ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Design Engineering Hope Optimistic
Designers are inherently optimistic people who try to make the world a better place — William McDonough Copy Share Image
Designers are optimistic people who are trained to be courageous about the future—and making the future happen. They aren’t always aware of the intricacies… — Nathan Shedroff Copy Share Image
Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods. — Genevieve Gorder Copy Share Image
The hope of good design lies in those designers who believe in what they do and will only do what they believeContrary to hearsay,… — Alexander Girard Copy Share Image
I really feel that design has the capacity to communicate, and I really have concentrated on the communication of positive values. — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
I am very focused on large-scale deployments of renewable power and how we're going to get this done. Imagine our military bases covered with… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
You don't filter smokestacks or water. Instead, you put the filter in your head and design the problem out of existence. — William McDonough Copy Share Image
You need that same creative force that exists in a building like Disney [Walt Disney Concert Hall] to actually tackle that most prosaic of… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water,… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
I'd so much rather have exciting architecture that causes one to stop, breathe, and reflect on the potential of the human mind, the craft,… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
To eliminate the concept of waste means to design things-products, packaging, and systems-from the very beginning on the understanding that waste does not exist. — William McDonough Copy Share Image
We are not a green standard, we are a quality standard. We're different, we're multi dimensional. — William McDonough Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong: I love nuclear energy! It's just that I prefer fusion to fission. And it just so happens that there's an… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage. — William McDonough Copy Share Image
The problem I have with carbon as a bad thing issue, is that people go out and say they want to be zero carbon.… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Plenty of white space and generous line spacing,and don't make the type size too miserly. Then you will be assured of a product fit… — Giambattista Bodoni Copy Share Image
Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them. — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
The market may never coalesce around one basic design, or even around two or three dominant devices. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Like many other scientists who hold the Catholic faith, I see the Creator's plan and purpose fulfilled in our universe. I see a planet… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it.... If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs,… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
Design is a very personal thing. It's like art. Your personal choice plays a big role. — Gauri Khan Copy Share Image
I am not a great believer in dialectical struggle. I am much more of a fusion person. I see it as a dialogue, or… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
