Design Quotes
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A pattern is either right or wrong...it is no stronger than its weakest point.
William Morris -
I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.
Jim Henson
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My name is on the door, and I care very much about the design that gets put out. I'm sorry, but it has to be my way. You learn that by working for people like I. M. Pei. You think he isn't a design tyrant? Is Calvin Klein a tyrant? When it came to his dresses, he had to be.
Peter Marino -
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.
Ken Jennings -
Evolution doesn't design things... The brain is... like a big, old house with piecemeal renovations done on every floor, and less like new construction.
Daniel Levitin -
...the Office's prime approach to architecture... is one of continuous ANTICIPATORY DESIGN.
Cedric Price -
I've teamed up with BaubleBar to curate a collection of gorgeous jewelry pieces. I worked closely with the BaubleBar team to design a collection that encompasses my style and all of my go to pieces.
Ashley Madekwe -
I really love advertising art of the '50s and the way mid-century design was often represented in jazzy, fast art.
Christopher McCulloch
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My mom modeled and made clothes, so I always had such an appreciation for design.
Blake Lively -
Misery, depression, elation all mine, refine confinement all my design.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
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 -
Volvo has one weakness, and that is in the interior design. They have not adapted to the Chinese people's perception of luxury when it comes to the interior design, and this has to be addressed.
Li Shufu -
Differential equations won't help you much in the design of aeroplanes — not yet, anyhow.
Nevil Shute -
Some people believe the U.S. can't compete in the design and manufacture of sophisticated products. I think we absolutely can if we pull together. We have shown that we can do that in commercial airplanes, and we can absolutely prove that we can do that in automobiles.
Alan Mulally
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Design your site so it looks professional
B. J. Fogg -
Why would you design something if it didn't improve the human condition?
Niels Diffrient -
...architects (should) involve themselves continuously in anticipatory design as recommended by Buckminster Fuller
Cedric Price -
In the way it transforms ideas and beliefs, successful design is like alchemy: it fuses together disparate ideas from different origins, so that the form of the completed product seems to embody only a single idea, which comes across as so familiar that we find ourselves supposing it to be exactly what we ourselves had always thought.
Adrian Forty -
A lot of people don't get it, but I design from the inside out so that the finished product looks inevitable somehow. I think it's important to create spaces that people like to be in, that are humanistic.
Frank Gehry -
Design is very, very critical for the success of the car. We want to find the distinctive features for Chinese cars on the world stage.
Li Shufu
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You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.
John Malkovich -
Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an 'intelligence explosion,' and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make.
I. J. Good -
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.
Kate Crawford -
My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling.
Jonathan Hickman