Design Quotes

• Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.

  

  Aaron Betsky
  • Life
  • Art
  • Daily

• Your problem has nothing to do with git, and everything to do with emacs. And then you have the gall to talk about 'Unix design' and not gumming programs together, when you yourself use the most gummed-up piece of absolute sh*t there is!

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Up
  • Together
  • Design

• My work first engaged with the early russian avant-garde; the paintings of moholy-nagy, el lissitzky's 'prouns' and naum gabo's sculptures, but in particular with the work of kasimir malevitch - he was an early influence for me as a representative of the modern avant-garde intersection between art and design.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Work
  • Art
  • Sculpture

• Once you come up with a premise, you have to work out how it all happened. It's a bit like coming up with a spectacular roof design first. Before you can get it up there, you need to build a solid foundation and supporting structure.

  

  Linwood Barclay
  • Up
  • Work
  • Design

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

  

  Jens Martin Skibsted
  • Nature
  • Design
  • Collaboration

• If I look to any company as a model, it's Apple. They're a brilliant design company working to create a lifestyle.

  

  Angela Ahrendts
  • Design
  • Model

• 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.

  

  Charles Bass
  • Up
  • Design

• That's what a conscience is made of, scar tissue ... Little strips and pieces of remorse sewn together year by year until they formed a distinctive pattern, a design for living.

  

  Margaret Millar
  • Together
  • Conscience
  • Remorse

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

  

  Charles Eames
  • Purpose
  • Design

• I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.

  

  John Malkovich
  • Design

• What made Louis Vuitton famous was the quality. We don't do marketing; we just create products which are exceptional in their design and craftsmanship.

  

  Bernard Arnault
  • Quality
  • Famous
  • Marketing

• Go over and over your beads, paint weird designs on your forehead, wear your hear matted, long, and ostentatious, but when deep inside you there is a loaded gun, how can you have God?

  

  Kabir
  • God
  • Long
  • Deep

• …the organization chart will initially reflect the first system design, which is almost surely not the right one … as one learns, he changes the design …. Management structures also need to be changed as the system changes…

  

  Fred Brooks
  • Design
  • Organization
  • Management

• Before leaving camp in 1902 we were already at work on the general design of a new machine which we proposed to propel with a motor.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Work
  • Leaving
  • Camp

• 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. I think I'd throw myself into whatever I'm doing now. It's not about abandoning what I was doing before, or giving up. It's about knowing that if I die tomorrow, I lived the way I wanted to.

  

  Ayumi Hamasaki
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Die

• The disappearance of nations would impoverish us no less than if all peoples were made alike, with one character, one face. Nations are the wealth of mankind, they are its generalized personalities: the smallest of them has its own particular colors, and embodies a particular facet of God's design.

  

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • God
  • Character
  • Design

• Problems come about when we try to direct the flow of the universe rather than allow it to reveal its own design. Inherent in that design is a love for all living things.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Universe
  • Problems
  • Living

• I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

  

  Len Wein
  • School
  • Art
  • College

• Design is the Zeppo Marx of management disciplines - the one that everyone seems to forget.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Design
  • Forget
  • Management

• Both of my grandmothers were needlewomen, so I grew up around dress design.

  

  Jenny Packham
  • Up
  • Design

• So many designers only sketch and leave pattern-making to others. Pattern-making is important so you know the structure. Then if someone tells me, 'I can't make a pattern from that sketch,' I can tell them, 'I will make it' and then they are quiet. If I can't make it, I don't design it.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Important
  • Me
  • Design

• 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.

  

  Clement Mok
  • Good
  • Business
  • Technology

• I wanted to be a sneaker designer since I was 10; it was my dream to work at Nike and design signature shoes for Michael Jordan and Penny Hardaway. When it was time to select high schools, I wanted to go to one that would help me get a jump-start on my dream.

  

  Kerby Jean-Raymond
  • Time
  • Work
  • Help

• 'Intelligent Design,' the relabeled, repackaged form of American creationism, has always had a problem. It just can't seem to produce any evidence.

  

  Kenneth R. Miller
  • American
  • Design
  • Intelligent

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