"Design is inherently optimistic. That is its power." — William McDonough

"Design is inherently optimistic. That is its power."

— William McDonough

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30 Quotes by William McDonough

William McDonough has 30 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Don't get me wrong: I love nuclear energy! It's just that I prefer fusion to fission. And it just so…
In the end, the question is not, how do we use nature to serve our interests? It's how can we…
We celebrate the cherry tree not for its efficiency but for its effectiveness - and for its beauty. Its materials…
You don't filter smokestacks or water. Instead, you put the filter in your head and design the problem out of…
Designers are inherently optimistic people who try to make the world a better place
If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to…
The eco-effective future of industry is a world of abundance that celebrates the use and consumption of products and materials…
We are proposing buildings that, like trees, are net energy exporters, produce more energy than they consume, accrue and store…
How do we love all the children of all species for all time?
Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how…
Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture,'
We see a world of abundance, not limits. In the midst of a great deal of talk about reducing the…

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More Design Quotes

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I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating… — Giorgio Armani
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. — Lance Armstrong
Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and… — Lance Armstrong
The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions… — Mary Astell
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. — Marcus Aurelius
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be… — Marcus Aurelius
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. — Francis Bacon
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. — Francis Bacon
If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. — Red Adair
You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete… — Douglas Adams
Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next. — Tyra Banks

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