Design Quotes
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Havenotness is caused by society's failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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The Taj stands on a raised, square platform (186 x 186 feet) with its four corners truncated, forming an unequal octagon. The architectural design uses the interlocking arabesque concept, in which each element stands on its own and perfectly integrates with the main structure.
Patrick Henry
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Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.
David Bromstad
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Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.
Elon Musk
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When I was in high school in England, I wasn't sure that you could have a career in fashion. In those days, there were very few fashion magazines. I didn't realize there was a school where you could go and learn how to make clothes and design. I thought you just had to be discovered somewhere, like a film.
Maria Cornejo
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I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.
Ai Weiwei
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I want to risk hitting my head on the ceiling of my talent. I want to really test it out and say: O.K., you're not that good. You just reached the level here. I don't ever want to fail, but I want to risk failure every time out of the gate.
Quentin Tarantino
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I was eager to see what Swedish design had to offer and get a sense of its fashion culture, and Altewai Saome was the perfect introduction.
Aslaug Magnusdottir
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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.
Corin Nemec
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As an actor, you see a sliver of how the show is made, but to see the actual writing process and the re-writing process and the casting process and art direction and set design - all of this is happening in a very intense period.
John Slattery
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I feel like people in the industry are scared to take that chance because it's not easy to design plus-size clothing.
Ashley Nell Tipton
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I love Ikea: it's non-design, but it works.
Louise Wilson
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We have an opportunity with the Model S to refine the design language, the surfacing, and all aspects of functionality.
Franz von Holzhausen
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Everything that I do has a certain mechanical logic to it, and follows my definition of design - which is function with cultural content.
Carl Magnusson
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I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing.
Donald Norman
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There are so many women throughout the world who appreciate beautiful design and have the budget to buy designer fashion but sometimes have a hard time finding the things that they really want or that suit their lifestyle or their culture or whatever it may be.
Aslaug Magnusdottir
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Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars.
John Maeda
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There's always been trying at some stage to design people. And it will always be presented initially as a positive thing, as a way to weed out diseases. Of course you know it ultimately will be used in a bad way too, to create slaves or servants.
Maria Doyle Kennedy
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A design remedy that prevents bugs is always preferable to a test method that discovers them.
Boris Beizer
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That's a sound design thing but then we wanted to do music that would not disturb it and at the same time drive it.
A. R. Rahman
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I realised as a teenager that I was destined for a creative life and found that fashion design was something I enjoyed and was a potentially successful career path.
Jenny Packham
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'Commercial' is not the word that has to be said only by CEOs. It has to be something that is maybe the essence of design, because design has some sort of art in it and creation, but it's also some object that you have to use. There is also this pragmatic end to it.
Alber Elbaz
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I don't want to design something that everybody else would do. I want to design something that's bigger or better or funnier or more beautiful.
Chris March
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We are here for God's designs, not for our own.
Oswald Chambers