Design Quotes
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Technology is, in the broadest sense, mind or intelligence or purpose blending with nature.
Paul Davies -
The idea of trying able to explain why you do what you do is absurd.
Milton Glaser
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...I know good design when I fail to trip over it.
Spider Robinson -
Working within the constraints of a problem is part of the fun and challenge of design.
Ellen Lupton -
Design is an art of situations. Designers respond to a need, a problem, a circumstance, that arises in the world. The best work is produced in relation to interesting situations - an open-minded client, a good cause, or great content.
Ellen Lupton -
As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.
Norman Foster -
I'm completely taken and impressed by the planning authority of Singapore and its Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). It's the most cutting-edge agency in the world. They have very effective guidelines for development, and they review design as it evolves.
Moshe Safdie -
Men have no concept of how to design things for the home. Women should design the things they use.
Eva Zeisel
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If you're wondering what the difference is, well fine art is like art that exists for its own sake. The Thing that fine art does is itself. Design is art that does something else. It's more like visual engineering.
Hank Green -
A design that doesn’t take change into account risks major redesign in the future.
Erich Gamma -
My mom taught me how to sew when I was super young; I used to make clothes for my dolls. When I finally went to fashion design school in 1999, I really took to pattern making. Everyone in class was good at something; I was the person, if you need help with your patterns, you come to me and I would help you out.
Serena Williams -
Entrepreneurs need to start building today. The barrier to entry in tech is low, so start designing, start coding it, launch it, build prototypes, build a working version of it. The Internet has amazing powers of distribution. You can test your ideas. You can see if it works, if it doesn't work, whether it's fun, and whether you're sufficiently motivated. People who go into entrepreneurship to get rich aren't going to be happy. It’s the building of things that makes you happy. You have to enjoy the process whether you succeed or fail.
Caterina Fake -
The first point one has to get straight in discussions like this, is that ID is not the opposite of evolution. Rather, it is the opposite of Darwinism, which says life evolved by an utterly unguided, undirected mechanism. If god directed the process of evolution, or rigged the universe to produce complex life, then that is not Darwinism - it is intelligent design.
Michael Behe -
The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
Carson McCullers
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Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.
Ellen Lupton -
Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.
Steve Jobs -
The strong appearance of design in nature allows a disarmingly simple argument: if it looks, walks and quacks like a duck, then, absent compelling evidence to the contrary, we have warrant to conclude it's a duck. Design should not be overlooked simply because it's so obvious.
Michael Behe -
Wanna run a killer business? Design it from the start so that it's leverageable, expandable, predictable & financeable - & you're unstoppable.
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
Design your life.
Amy Chan -
Criticism per se does not worry me. I've always solicited it as part of the design process.
Rem Koolhaas
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One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.
Renzo Piano -
The hope of good design lies in those designers who believe in what they do and will only do what they believe Contrary to hearsay, it is possible to make a living that way.
Alexander Girardun -
Work for money, design for love.
Issey Miyake -
Burberry is now as much a media-content company as we are a design company...
Christopher Bailey