Design Quotes
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Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time.
Charles James
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In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house so luckily place as to exhibit a view of the whole design. I have sometimes thought that there was room for it to resemble a epic or dramatic poem.
William Shenstone
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If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.
Jamie Oliver
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It isn't obvious and it took us a while to demonstrate that we could actually design a machine that bends.
Barry Barish
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If we think about things having multiple lives, cradle to cradle, we could design things that can go back to either nature or back to industry forever.
William McDonough
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Through our evolution, we're so specialized for social interaction. So, if you can really design robots that can interact with people, in this very natural, interpersonal way, I think that would be great. You wouldn't have to have people read manuals, in order to operate them.
Cynthia Breazeal
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I don't know if you know it, J.B., but you're the sort of fellow who causes hundreds to fall under suspicion when he's found stabbed in his library with a paper-knife of Oriental design.
P. G. Wodehouse
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Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.
Freeman Thomas
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A newspaper can follow the compulsions, the desires of the readers. Take the English evening newspapers - they are following the readers' desires when they are interested only in the royal family gossip. But even the most objective, serious newspaper in the world designs the way in which the reader could or should think. That's unavoidable.
Umberto Eco
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When we design for non-Latin, we always aim to create a rhythm and texture that is sympathetic so when you have the two scripts running side by side, they create, ideally, the same tonal value on the page.
Bruno Maag
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I learn my lines while on the golf course. I try to do two or three things at once. I have ideas for books all the time, I have ideas for paintings all the time, and I write them all down. I take my sketchpad and my iPad, which I design on, and I do sit down and do specific tasks at specific times.
Jane Seymour
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The problem is, in software design, often the consequences of your decisions don't become apparent for years.
Kent Beck
