Design Quotes
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I believe that human beings are born first and given passports later. I'm really thankful for my journey. And it's a journey I didn't design.
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Why would you design something if it didn't improve the human condition?
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The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.
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Data and data sets are not objective; they are creations of human design. We give numbers their voice, draw inferences from them, and define their meaning through our interpretations.
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Traditional agriculture was labour intensive, industrial agriculture is energy intensive, and permaculture-designed systems are information and design intensive.
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I design some of my own clothes now.
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Surprisingly, the Eisenhower Memorial design contains almost none of the known Gehry-box of tricks. His giant etched chain-link curtain, first applied in 1979 to hide an ungracious parking garage at Santa Monica Place, is resurrected for Eisenhower to screen the equally graceless facade of the Department of Education.
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I believe that to further strategic growth and development via design, we need to have a set of public design policies.
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The Final Jeopardy! questions seem to be, by design, things you can't know. And so it's not about who knows them, but who can figure them out in thirty seconds.
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Could we design an all-glass building with internal channels and networks for airflow and water circulation? Can we surpass the great modern tradition of discrete formal and functional partitions and generate an all-in-one building skin?
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Only in black and white can I see the design and textures. I don't consider color photography art. Black and white is an interpretation. Color is a duplication.
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Design, refine and repeat, and keep learning all the way along. It sounds bland and pedestrian, but in fact, it's the reverse.
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I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.
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Decide today to design and build the ideal relationship in your life. It's up to you.
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I have always loved clothes, and the opportunity to design my own line could not be missed. It's a dream job.
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You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.
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Tesla is changing the paradigm. We're going to turn the world on its ear and create high demand through design.
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The new package design and label reflect decades of experience and everything we know about effectively communication with today's consumer.
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...architects (should) involve themselves continuously in anticipatory design as recommended by Buckminster Fuller
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Airplanes were invented by natural selection. Now you can say that intelligent design designs our airplanes of today, but there was no intelligent design really designing those early airplanes. There were probably at least 30,000 different things tried, and when they crash and kill the pilot, don't try that again.
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Modern PCs are horrible. ACPI is a complete design disaster in every way. But we're kind of stuck with it. If any Intel people are listening to this and you had anything to do with ACPI, shoot yourself now, before you reproduce.
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Anyway, seeking work is a tad difficult given the poor design of the streets with their prohibitive curbs and driveways that don't quite line up.
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There's a lot of shoes that people consider high-end fashion, from Balenciaga to this and that or whatever, and the Pro Models are very similar to me. They're very fashionable to me - the design and the shape of them. I just like them.
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The original Heart logo was made back in the real early '70s by Mike Fisher, who I used to be in a relationship with. He was first our manager and then our soundman. When I met him, he was in design school for architecture, so he was always drawing.
