Design Quotes
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Consider this: all the ants on the planet, taken together, have a biomass greater than that of humans. Ants have been incredibly industrious for millions of years. Yet their productiveness nourishes plants, animals, and soil. Human industry has been in full swing for little over a century, yet it has brought about a decline in almost every ecosystem on the planet. Nature doesn't have a design problem. People do.
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I love every period in design history. Even the ugly ones.
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I don't set goals. Like, that's what I want to be doing however many years from now. 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.
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I don’t think that anyone has really told (people) what design is. It doesn’t occur to most people that everything is designed--that every building and everything they touch in the world is designed. Even foods are designed now. So in the process of helping people understand this, making them more aware of the fact that the world around us is something that somebody has control of, perhaps they can feel some sense of control, too. I think that’s a nice ambition.
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Building design isn't trendy.
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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!
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I love Prada shirts because they're so decorative and figure-hugging, but I also like Reiss shirts because they're clean, simple and look as if they've come off the peg from a design house.
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Having the USDA design your food pyramid is like having Al Capone do your taxes.
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Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it's this veneer - that the designers are handed this box and told, 'Make it look good!' That's not what we think design is. It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
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I never set out to do interior design; I just do what I do, and some people come along and want me to work with them.
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"Story-tellers" should listen seriously to design and architecture without getting all literary and imperial about that. Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry.
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Golf course design is exciting.
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I try to look at design from a more conceptual standpoint.
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It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
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Apple's goal isn't to make money. Our goal is to design and develop and bring to market good products... We trust as a consequence of that, people will like them, and as another consequence, we'll make some money. But we're really clear about what our goals are.
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Unfortunately, the client that exists today is still pretty much the prototype design.
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The last 10% of game design is really what separates the good games from the great games. It's what I call the clean-up phase of game design. Here's where you make sure all the elements look great. The game should look good, feel good, sound good, play good.
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There were IBM logos designed for the film, and there were IBM design consultants working with Kubrick on the layout of the controls and computer screens.
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I moved to New York and went to art school at Parsons School of Design. Became a photographer. Became a creative consultant.
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I think with my hands. I design things to be touched-not for a museum. A piece is ready when it has the shape of something to cherish.
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I got involved in the design process a long time ago. I've been working with their main designer Berlei for a while. It's been really fun all around.
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I don't design clothes for the Queen, but for the people who wave at her as she goes by.
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Designing was always something I was interested in. I studied fashion design in high school as well as how to sew.
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You have to understand, in the current academic climate, Intelligent Design is like leprosy or heresy in times past. To be tagged as an ID supporter is to become an academic pariah, and this holds even at so-called Christian institutions that place a premium on respectability at the expense of truth and the offense of the Gospel.
