Quotes on design

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Author: Douglas Adams

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

Author: John Adams

We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design.

Author: Steve Albini

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.

Author: Christopher Alexander

I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look.

Author: Debbie Allen

But my point is that you design something in the end that precludes any unhealthy trading practices that are not going to serve your environmental or your economic objectives but now is not the time to do it.

Author: John Anderson

The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.

Author: Tadao Ando

When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space.

Author: Tadao Ando

I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself.

Author: Ursula Andress

Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design.

Author: Sergio Aragones

I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.

Author: Giorgio Armani

God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.

Author: Mary Astell

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.

Author: Mary Astell

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

Author: Mary Astell

The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all.

Author: Colleen Atwood

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

Author: Marcus Aurelius

One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.

Author: Ralph Bakshi

Accessible design is good design.

Author: Steve Ballmer

Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

Author: Isaac Barrow

The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995.

Author: Charles Bass

In its report, the Cox Committee concludes that China is using stolen U.S. design information to speed up its deployment of a new nuclear missile force.

Author: Charles Bass

Design is an unknown.

Author: Geoffrey Beene

We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.

Author: Michael Behe

I wear a lot of different hats - from writer to producer and artist. We all do 5 or 6 jobs, everything from creating our own graphic design to actually recording and the whole bit.

Author: William Bell

The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.

Author: Harry Bertoia

I have never seen a game's graphics look so sharp and clean. The sound design for the game is also unique on the Xbox. The memory on this system allowed us to provide the user with 5.1 Dolby surround sound for home theatre owners.

Author: Don Bluth

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

Author: Pierre Bonnard

An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.

Author: Daniel Boorstin

We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.

Author: David Brainerd

I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.

Author: David Brainerd

Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.

Author: David Bromstad

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.

Author: Les Brown

I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.

Author: Isambard Brunel

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

Author: Charlie Byrd

I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots.

Author: James Cameron

For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.

Author: Kim Campbell

After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America.

Author: Russ Carnahan

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Author: Miguel Cervantes

Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.

Author: Ivan Chermayeff

By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.

Author: Steven Chu

Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to.

Author: Ethan Coen

Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be.

Author: Dennis Conner

Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair.

Author: David Crane

I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.

Author: Seymoure Cray

I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate.

Author: Mike Davidson

Whenever I design any variant, or when anybody sends me one, I always say if at all possible within the context of the game don't have two home supply centers touching each other.

Author: Fred Davis

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

Author: Richard Dawkins

The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.

Author: Michael Dell

Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.

Author: Norm Dicks

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

Author: Walt Disney

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

Author: Donald Douglas

I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.

Author: K. Drexler

You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.

Author: Dorothy Dunnett

While I was at college studying design I decided to paint. I was also greatly inspired by the colours that I had seen on my travels in the Brazilian Rain forest.

Author: John Dyer

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

Author: Freeman Dyson

To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.

Author: Charles Eames

The details are not the details. They make the design.

Author: Charles Eames

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.

Author: Charles Eames

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

Author: Charles Eames

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.

Author: Michael Ende

Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications.

Author: Drew Endy

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.

Author: Arthur Erickson

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

Author: Arthur Erickson

Unfortunately, the client that exists today is still pretty much the prototype design.

Author: Shawn Fanning

The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.

Author: Leo Fender

Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.

Author: Adam Ferguson

Internet safety begins at home and that is why my legislation would require the Federal Trade Commission to design and publish a unique website to serve as a clearinghouse and resource for parents, teachers and children for information on the dangers of surfing the Internet.

Author: Mike Fitzpatrick

I have had this view of the optimization of the electrode design for a long time. Historically we went through various phases in the work and eventually worked on large sheets - very large sheets - of palladium.

Author: Martin Fleischmann

Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families. However, they refused to include any of those who were removed in the design of their own memorial.

Author: Malcolm Fraser

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

Author: Marilyn French

How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?

Author: Kinky Friedman

The artist in me cries out for design.

Author: Robert Frost

I design for the woman who loves being a woman.

Author: Diane Furstenberg

I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May '43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in '42 - even in my position. This aircraft didn't have any priority in design or production.

Author: Adolf Galland

Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design.

Author: Stephen Gardiner

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.

Author: Stephen Gardiner

User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process.

Author: Jesse Garrett

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.

Author: Bill Gates

Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.

Author: Carlos Ghosn

Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

Author: George Gilder

There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.

Author: Rudy Giuliani

To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

Author: Charles Givens

So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward.

Author: Genevieve Gorder

That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them.

Author: Genevieve Gorder

Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.

Author: Genevieve Gorder

It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.

Author: Genevieve Gorder

I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really convinced me of how powerful a thing design is. It's not just an aesthetic decoration.

Author: Genevieve Gorder

Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do.

Author: Paul Graham

It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this.

Author: Michael Graves

When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.

Author: Christine Gregoire

Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response.

Author: April Greiman

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.

Author: Walter Gropius

And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight.

Author: Umberto Guidoni

We want people to realize you are at a design school, not a land grant college. The way we look says a great deal about who we are.

Author: James Hall

I don't set goals. Like, that's what I want to be doing however many years from now. I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes.

Author: Ayumi Hamasaki

We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world.

Author: Jim Henson

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

Author: Jim Henson

The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.

Author: Anthony Holden

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

Author: David Hume

Design is people.

Author: Jane Jacobs

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Author: Steve Jobs

Don't get too caught up in making money or having a job, get excited about the fact that you can design your life.

Author: Darren Johnson

Design works if it's authentic, inspired, and has a clear point of view. It can't be a collection of input.

Author: Ron Johnson

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Author: Samuel Johnson

It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.

Author: Junius

I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.

Author: Mikhail Kalashnikov

Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.

Author: Donna Karan

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.

Author: Kevin Kelly

Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.

Author: Kevin Kelly

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.

Author: Thomas Keneally

Golf course design is exciting.

Author: Tom Kite

People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.

Author: Calvin Klein

They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.

Author: Christian Lacroix

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

Author: Christian Lacroix

The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.

Author: Wally Lamb

I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive.

Author: Joseph Lancaster

Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.

Author: John Langdon

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

Author: Ralph Lauren

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.

Author: David Lawrence

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

Author: Tim Lee

We must carefully consider card security solutions, such as adding photographs or machine-readable electronic strips, so to prevent further breaches of individual privacy that could result from changes to the design of Social Security Cards.

Author: Ron Lewis

And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole.

Author: Daniel Libeskind

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.

Author: Daniel Libeskind

If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the jeans, the design of belts and boots, the haircut, the number and size of earrings.

Author: Lance Loud

Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actually.

Author: Yukihiro Matsumoto

I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.

Author: Yukihiro Matsumoto

Well, yes, I mean, I think that, you know, my sources suggest that there's a lot of support for the notion that there is a lot of Koran abuse and that it was very much a systematic design, not just an aberration.

Author: Jane Mayer

I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.

Author: Jonathan Mayhew

It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus in on the band, but instead focused in on a theme.

Author: Mike McCready

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

Author: Carson McCullers

Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one.

Author: David McFadden

The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually.

Author: Kenneth Miller

The new strategy is to teach intelligent design without calling it intelligent design.

Author: Kenneth Miller

The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question.

Author: Kenneth Miller

We opened a design center in the South of England last year as part of our strategy for being close to our customers and developing innovative products for exciting new markets.

Author: David Milne

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.

Author: Issey Miyake

Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.

Author: Clement Mok

My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.

Author: Robert Moog

The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design.

Author: Daniel Moran

In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.

Author: Samuel Morison

So much of it is the design of the shot or the motion of the character; it's the work you do so that it has the same things that are in the movie. In just a few frames it's got to communicate something clearly and dramatically.

Author: Dennis Muren

Stargate by far is the top of the pile when it comes to Sci-Fi. The quality is great. They have really good writers, production design, lighting, wardrobe.

Author: Corin Nemec

So if I want to buy a light in a shop and I don't find a light that I like, I think to myself what would I like? What would I like to buy? Then I started to imagine and design it for myself a lot of the time.

Author: Marc Newson

So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.

Author: Marc Newson

I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.

Author: Marc Newson

Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.

Author: Marc Newson

Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.

Author: Donald Norman

It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format.

Author: Donald Norman

Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone.

Author: Donald Norman

I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing.

Author: Donald Norman