Design Quotes
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I have been doing technology foresight for a number of years now on the level of scenario design, primarily. I want to become more rigorous with research methodology and statistical methods. I want to shift from creating clever SF scenarios to being a professional forecaster able to make rigorous predictions.
Karl Schroeder
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Well, I probably won't get too good grades even without you: I had an argument (completely unrelated – not even pertaining to OS's) with the person here at the university that teaches OS design. I wonder when I'll learn :)
Linus Torvalds
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A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape.
William Shenstone
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I do believe that most startups who develop applications and digital products design 'towards the middle.' By this, I mean they design their products to reach the broadest consumer base possible, which is a sound strategy in some respects.
Kimberly Bryant
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I think sometimes I might scare the editors, because they might feel they're getting old and they're not understanding it. The problem lies on their side of the fence, not mine. I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era.
Alexander McQueen
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Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.
Edward Tufte
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Each season I strive to design a forward-thinking and effortless collection with a very clean minimalist aesthetic.
Francisco Costa
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I was trying to foster a great working relationship between those two departments [design and the writing teams], because classically in animation the two don't get along.
Walt Dohrn
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Good design is forever.
Van Day Truex
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Leave this world a little better than you found it.
Robert Baden-Powell
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I look at each episode in two ways - from a design standpoint and from an entertainment standpoint - this is TV, after all. We usually succeed on at least one of the levels.
Douglas Wilson
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The dreaded phrase in design circles is 'show and tell.'
David Carson
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Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.
Donna Karan
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After college, I did a bunch of different jobs - taught English in Mexico, worked in public radio, worked for a web design company - but there was something about documentaries that really attracted me.
Marshall Curry
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I'm a big believer in the emotion of design, and the message that's sent before somebody begins to read, before they get the rest of the information; what is the emotional response they get to the product, to the story, to the painting - whatever it is.
David Carson
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From a design perspective, the U.S. has always been a great source of inspiration for me.
Brunello Cucinelli
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Traditional communication design and the digital revolution will certainly blend and integrate, as clients’ communications needs rarely involve just one medium.
Katherine McCoy
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A rational model of software is to design it quickly - the economic pressure to improvise presents an interesting challenge.
Kent Beck
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After months of preparation working with a stylist who explained to me how a fashion house runs and the process of making a dress, I developed a respect for the patience and skill it takes to design these dresses.
Pierre Niney
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Unbelief makes a man guilty of the vilest contempt of Christ, and the whole design of redemption by Him.
John Flavel
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If a mind is just a few pounds of blood, urea, and electricity, how does it manage to contemplate itself, worry about its soul, do time-and-motion studies, admire the shy hooves of a goat, know that it will die, enjoy all the grand and lesser mayhems of the heart ?
Diane Ackerman
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For some reason I have a visual intuition that allows me to design things in an interesting way, and I don't know where that came from. Because I don't have this formal training, I seem to drift in a different direction.
David Carson
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'Design Star' was incredible, and I didn't think it could get any better, and then 'Color Splash' happened.
David Bromstad
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Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be.
Dennis Conner