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"A shoe is not only a design, but it's a part of your body language, the way you walk. The way you're going to move is quite dictated by your shoes."
Christian Louboutin"Luck is the residue of design."
Branch Rickey"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
Steve Jobs"I don't design clothes, I design dreams."
Ralph Lauren"Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design."
Charles Eames"A camel is a horse designed by committee."
Alec Issigonis"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -Antoine de Saint"
Exupery"You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality."
Walt Disney"Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful."
Dieter Rams"Any product that needs a manual to work is broken."
Elon Musk"Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones."
Herbert A. Simon"Design is everything. Everything!"
Paul Rand"Design is not for philosophy it's for life."
Issey Miyake"Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it."
Pierre Bonnard"We design our world, while our world acts back on us and designs us. -Anne"
Marie Willis"Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se."
Charles Eames"A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous."
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe"Fashion fades, only style remains the same."
Coco Chanel"Space is the breath of art."
Frank Lloyd Wright"To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master."
Milton Glaser"Design is people."
Jane Jacobs"Good design doesn't date."
Harry Seidler"Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated."
Paul Rand"It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion."
Andrew Wyeth"Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution."
Ivan Chermayeff"The proper study of mankind is the science of design."
Herbert A. Simon"The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living."
Harry Bertoia"Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors."
George Santayana"Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works."
Steve Jobs"Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space."
Philip Johnson"Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love."
Louis Kahn"With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces."
Greg Lynn"Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep."
Le Corbusier"Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable."
Donna Karan"Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one."
David McFadden"The primary factor is proportions."
Arne Jacobsen"The space within becomes the reality of the building."
Frank Lloyd Wright"I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate."
Mike Davidson"Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long."
Kenzo Tange"I design for myself and the first question I ask is, 'Would I wear it?'"
Claudia Schiffer"Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school."
Nate Berkus"The Global Financial Crisis and Great Recession posed daunting new challenges for central banks around the world and spurred innovations in the design, implementation, and communication of monetary policy."
Janet Yellen"I weirdly love interior design and real estate and all of that. I really do. I get chills from it."
Kendall Jenner"Good design should be honest."
Ferdinand Porsche"The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy."
Noam Chomsky"I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality."
Marc Newson"Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it."
Miguel de Cervantes"The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line."
Arthur Erickson"In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer."
Steve Wozniak"Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture."
Peter York"Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions."
Coco Chanel"Good design is good business."
Thomas J. Watson"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"Marc Jacobs is full of creative people and Louis Vuitton is again a name on the door, a name that has existed for many years but I'm a collaborator there and I bring in other people, other artists and I work with a great creative design team."
Marc Jacobs"Costume design allows you to do a different type of research and create characters, whereas in fashion, you create an image and clothing for the masses."
Colleen Atwood"I would urge everyone to start looking at the world in a different way. Spend some time looking at everyday objects, at their design, their shape, their individual characteristics. Think ahead and imagine their significance."
Martin Parr"If you want to communicate something, you'd better make sure that your design piece is well-dressed and that its teeth are fixed. At the same time, I still believe that if it is only stylistically great and it has nothing to say, it still is not going to make a lasting impression on anybody."
Stefan Sagmeister"Over the years, I observed that many talented graphic designers, including those in my own family, had difficulty getting their designs to market. I thought it would be possible to hold open stationery design competitions where all designers could participate."
Mariam Naficy"I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is."
B. F. Skinner"I believe in empty spaces; they're the most wonderful thing."
Anselm Kiefer"Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design."
Christopher Alexander"I've learned a tremendous amount over the years by watching designers work. I now have a good understanding of what sits well on the body, not to mention the importance of a great cut and quality."
Claudia Schiffer"Good design doesn't date. Bad design does."
Paul Rand"A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do."
Niklaus Wirth"Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design."
Herbert A. Simon"Informed clients are better clients, and they make for better design."
Kelly Wearstler"The craftless anarchy of the Beat poets on the one hand, and the extreme control of Henry James on the other, suggest that for most human beings, just as both freedom and discipline are necessary in life, serendipity and design must coexist in a work to make it readable."
Mark Helprin"I often ask myself, 'What would design be like if objects were made of a single part? Would we return to a better state of creation?'"
Neri Oxman"The Hewitt sisters were these amazing - both sort of philanthropists and dilettantes who went out and single-handedly collected all of these of-the-moment designs in wallpaper and textiles and in graphic design in order to teach people about design."
Jake Barton"Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies."
Tahl Raz"I want to reiterate the fact that at the core of it all, I am a designer, a creator, and as a creative person, I will choose to be limitless in the extension models of my various ideas on design."
Gauri Khan"I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves."
Anna Quindlen"We look at life from the back side of the tapestry. And most of the time, what we see is loose threads, tangled knots and the like. But occasionally, God's light shines through the tapestry, and we get a glimpse of the larger design with God weaving together the darks and lights of existence."
John Piper"The big difference between couture and ready-to-wear is not design. It is the fabrics, the handwork, and the fittings. The act of creation is the same."
Yves Saint Laurent"Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code."
Ellen Ullman"My hair is different than a lot of people's. I like my hair. I like the fade. I like the little design I have. I'm cool with it. Obviously my hair is thin on top, so it looks like a bald spot, but I really could care less."
Trae Young"As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown."
Norman Foster"Decisions are the frequent fabric of our daily design."
Don Yaeger"In our interconnected world, novel technology could empower just one fanatic, or some weirdo with a mindset of those who now design computer viruses, to trigger some kind of disaster. Indeed, catastrophe could arise simply from technical misadventure - error rather than terror."
Martin Rees"What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together."
Mitch Kapor"Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate."
Paul Rand"Good design is good business."
Ian Schrager"Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy."
Erma Bombeck"Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people."
Thomas J. Watson"To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need."
Charles Eames"Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold."
James Randolph Adams"A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials."
Diane von Furstenberg"London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design."
Renzo Piano"I have never seen a game's graphics look so sharp and clean. The sound design for the game is also unique on the Xbox. The memory on this system allowed us to provide the user with 5.1 Dolby surround sound for home theatre owners."
Don Bluth"It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design, and I've devoted much of my career to this."
Michael Graves"Advertising is, of course, important because advertise is the final design. It's the last layer that speaks to the customer, that tells them what you have."
Tom Ford"Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design."
Sergio Aragones"We are spiritual beings whether we want to admit it or not, and inherent in our DNA is a design to return us home - home to our true essence, our greatest self, our limitless self."
Debbie Ford"Anyone with a computer and a design program can create a page layout. But unless you're trained in design, it won't look very good and it won't communicate very well."
John Maeda"I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings."
Daniel Libeskind"I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body."
Gianni Versace"Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance."
Samuel Johnson"Accessible design is good design."
Steve Ballmer"All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations."
Henry Petroski"There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few."
Victor Papanek"Design is a series of creative choices - it's a collaborative effort, an evolutionary process. You choose your fabrics depending upon what you want to say, then you work with mills to get those fabrics. Through the process, you realize what you want it to be."
Marc Jacobs"Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women."
Gary Gygax"To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse. To design is to transform prose into poetry."
Paul Rand"I live in a craftsman house, but I'm a big fan of modernist and mid-century furniture and architecture, too. But my dream is to do a truly original chair design, something that is all these different things but is my own, too."
Luke Macfarlane"If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life."
Henry David Thoreau"Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as 600 effects shots or CG characters that have to go a certain way, or a film design that is different but expensive."
Ang Lee"I wanted to design a museum in which everything would seem clear."
Mario Botta"I'm fascinated with design. I realized early that I had no talent in that direction, but I love talking with architects and designers about what they do. I appreciate applied creativity as a source of pleasure and meaning."
Alex Steffen"What can we learn from the battle between data and design? What can we learn from the relationship between Google and Apple? Clearly no one school of thought is right: Apple and Google are both wildly successful and profitable companies that changed the world."
Ben Parr"For all the drama we all have with our families and all the tension and hostility, I couldn't have done this without my family. Being the people that they are - they're crazy - made it possible for me to be crazy and to live a lifestyle of my own design."
Dan Colen"Jerry Goldsmith, I have to say, is my single favorite composer of all time. He was one of the most innovative guys ever to do it. You go back to 'Planet of the Apes' and it is just a monumental score - the sound design and approach to percussion was just so extraordinary. One of his great scores for me was 'Alien.'"
James Newton Howard"The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair."
Leo Fender"My cultural identity is obviously a huge part of my design aesthetic."
Masaba Gupta"I often say that 'Design Matters' began in February 2005 with an idea and a telephone line."
Debbie Millman"I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing."
Donald Norman"I don't have a traditional design background, but it's inherent to me. My father was in the fabric industry, and even my grandfather and my great-grandfather were lace manufacturers."
Stacey Bendet"We believe in a best-in-class vertical strategy, with PR at the center as its operating ethos of earned at the core, social by design."
Richard Edelman"A small change at the beginning of the design process defines an entirely different product at the end."
Jonathan Ive"When shooting in real spaces, the work of a cinematographer begins where location meets production design meets time of day. No movie light will ever look as real as the sun, so scheduling becomes truly paramount to naturalistic lighting."
Rachel Morrison"A business woman needs a successful mix of design and practicality."
Donatella Versace"Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health."
Robert Evans"About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs."
Manolo Blahnik"I'm a designer, and I think if you work in fashion, you have to give people fantasy."
Christian Louboutin"I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall."
Annie Leibovitz"In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone."
Donald Norman"I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression."
John Malkovich"A bridge is born of necessity, but it must establish its own identity. It should harmonize with its surroundings, and the design must transcend the purely local and transform the setting."
Santiago Calatrava"The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary."
I. M. Pei"I studied video game design. The one thing I knew for sure about myself is I didn't want to study acting."
Dylan Sprouse"Design is an iterative process. One idea often builds on another."
Mark Parker"It's very difficult to design something for someone if you have no empathy."
Stewart Butterfield"There was never a moment where I was intentionally cribbing from another actor. More so, I grew up watching other actors design the character of The Joker to me, and obviously, the part was paying tribute to The Joker, and so I wanted to, you know, perform it to the best of my abilities in a way that it seemed to be paying homage to the character."
Cameron Monaghan"I wanted to go beyond the sentiments and needs of daily life to create a sense of wonder and find a new space for design."
Marcel Wanders"'LaFerrari' means 'the Ferrari.' The excellence. In this car, we put everything we are able to do. Our extreme technology, extreme experience, extreme capability. And this has been the first Ferrari totally designed in our design center."
Luca Cordero di Montezemolo"For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme."
Christian Lacroix"Of course, to publish something, you have to write it, polish it, then hire out the line editing, copy editing and cover design. After which, you pick your way through the minefield of conforming to the differing requirements of Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Smashwords, or hire someone to do it for you."
Ruth Glick"To me, Celine is unrivaled, and Hedi Slimane has such a multifaceted talent - from clothing design to photography. He creates this rare, incredible, and desirable world through his vision. I'm always inspired by his work."
Lisa"I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots."
James Cameron"The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it."
Mary Astell"In order to design a future of positive change, we must first become expert at changing our minds."
Jacque Fresco"A great dream of mine would be to run a design studio full of scientists who think about science as creatively as if they were doing art."
Neri Oxman"M.A.C. stands for makeup, art, and cosmetics. We're about bringing all these worlds together - makeup, design, fashion."
Marcel Wanders"I had a great teacher who was really encouraging and said I should go to Central Saint Martins. So I worked my socks off, and I managed to get a place there. It was there that I developed a real love for design."
Giles Deacon"I had the virtue of wanting to hang out with people who were more talented than me. I can't write songs, I can't perform, I can't design clubs, but I was an enthusiast. My gift was that I said yes to everybody."
Tony Wilson"I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality."
Zaha Hadid"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"People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design."
Richard Dawkins"If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls."
Guido van Rossum"Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill."
Rem Koolhaas"British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class."
Margaret Heffernan"This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it."
Isaac Mizrahi"Today, tomorrow and every day, we will see at least 2,000 young children killed or seriously injured on the world's roads. This is unacceptable, preventable, and we have to stop it. We have the vaccines for this disease: helmets, seatbelts, speed enforcement, safe road design. We just need to use them."
Michelle Yeoh"My background was in graphic design, but when I was doing it, it was all hand-drawn stuff, not computers."
Jeffrey Dean Morgan"Sustainability can't be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a design challenge."
Bjarke Ingels"In nature, there is no separation between design, engineering, and fabrication; the bone does it all."
Neri Oxman"The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England."
Peter Stuyvesant"I look at graphic design as communication, meaning that the work has to have a vibe to connect to the viewer or perceiver. I make a black and white drawing and then add color digitally, bringing in a contemporary pattern to the composition to create a vibrance."
John Van Hamersveld"I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design."
Stephen Sprouse"All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it."
Vera Wang"Agriculture as we know it needs to disappear. We can design better and healthier proteins than we get from nature."
Craig Venter"I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it."
James Dyson"Similar to computer technology in the '60s, 3-D printing is a universal technology that has the potential to revolutionize our life by enabling individuals to design and manufacture things."
Hod Lipson"Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment."
Patrick Lencioni"I wanted to design a line based on Hollywood's Golden Era. I talked with Stephen Burrows and with Willi Smith and with one or two other people, but it just seems like such a hard field to break into. I need someone like Calvin Klein's manager to get behind me!"
Aretha Franklin"When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great."
Vera Wang"Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover relationships and to make arrangements and rearrangements among these ingredients."
Paul Rand"There is a design behind the world that we are living in, which is veiled to most of us most of the time, but every once in a while, you catch a glimpse of it."
Mark Frost"Mother Nature has been the best bioengineer in history. Why not harness the evolutionary process to design proteins?"
Frances Arnold"The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden."
Stephen Gardiner"Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation."
William Butler Yeats"Great design is so many things all at the same time. It is emotional, functional, and responsive. It creates an unwritten dialogue, a connection, between itself and those who experience it. It is open to interpretation yet created for a specific purpose. It creates meaning and value."
Marcel Wanders"I studied computer science and graphic design, yeah, so music was self-taught and a backburner thing, an obsessive hobby."
Tycho"His father is governor of Media, and though he has the greatest command given him of all the rest of my generals, he still covetously desires more, and my being without issue spurs him on to this wicked design. But Philotas takes wrong measures."
Alexander the Great"I have the same sense of discovery and exhilaration from objects of design and everyday use - I am inspired by the buildings in my city, by park greenery and dazzling store windows, by the jaunty strollers and umbrellas and billboards I walk past. Just strolling our streets, we encounter creativity every single day."
Agnes Gund"I have a background in graphic design and have been designing t-shirt graphics for years."
Manila Luzon"Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design."
Michael Graves"Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to."
Ethan Coen"Design is thinking made visual."
Saul Bass"Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before."
Herodotus"When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space."
Tadao Ando"A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes."
Edith Head"Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers."
Alexander McQueen"I describe the design process as like the tip of the iceberg. What you don't see is the long haul: all the endless auditing and things like that."
Norman Foster"I'm not a mother of children, but I'm a different type of mother where my approach to design is more in line with nature. It's less about dictating and more about editing and listening and allowing something to grow. So I nourish and let the material express what it wants to be."
Neri Oxman"Multitasking, throughput, efficiency - these are excellent machine concepts, useful in the design of computer systems. But are they principles that nurture human thought and imagination?"
Ellen Ullman"Sculptures created from found materials like ice and thorns, driftwood, and even bleached kangaroo bones all presuppose that artistic design will yield to the cycles of time and climate, whether over an hour or a decade."
Simon Schama"Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition."
Freeman Thomas"To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past."
Charles J. Givens"There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the challenges facing our cities or to the housing crisis, but the two issues need to be considered together. From an urban design and planning point of view, the well-connected open city is a powerful paradigm and an engine for integration and inclusivity."
Richard Rogers"The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design."
Elon Musk"What made Louis Vuitton famous was the quality. We don't do marketing; we just create products which are exceptional in their design and craftsmanship."
Bernard Arnault"At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve. -Daniel Day"
Lewis"I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right."
Brad Pitt"With a wedding gown, I have to make sure that people fall in love with it and that the details are very specific and special. There has to be a big story behind it and a great deal of integrity when it comes to the design."
Jenny Packham"I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment."
Ralph Lauren"Chaoyang Park Plaza is about how to carry the traditional culture into a new format in modern architecture. Instead of building a boundary between the city and the park, I tried to design this building to emerge from the natural landscape."
Ma Yansong"I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains."
Jeff Hawkins"The promise I've tried to honor my entire career, that the rule of law and the design of the founders, right, the oversight of courts and the oversight of Congress will be at the heart of what the FBI does."
James Comey"Through our evolution, we're so specialized for social interaction. So, if you can really design robots that can interact with people, in this very natural, interpersonal way, I think that would be great. You wouldn't have to have people read manuals, in order to operate them."
Cynthia Breazeal"By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that."
John Tenniel"I grew up in a modernist house, in a modernist culture. There was a love for modernism everywhere - the furniture, the books, the food, even the cutlery. So I learned very early to appreciate the value of design and the value of architecture."
Neri Oxman"Architects feel empowered to give opinions about politics and sociology and philosophy without knowing much about it. Kind of in the same way that they think they can design furniture or fashion or utensils for dining."
Rafael Vinoly"'Design' is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing."
Jonathan Ive"There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple."
Frank Gehry"When I design something, I think of it as a gift to somebody else."
Eva Zeisel"French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community."
Stephen Gardiner"Intelligent design is a modest position theologically and philosophically. It attributes the complexity and diversity of life to intelligence, but does not identify that intelligence with the God of any religious faith or philosophical system."
William A. Dembski"Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality."
Camille Paglia"I do very little industrial design. I'm asked a lot, but I certainly don't see myself as an industrial designer."
David Chipperfield"How can we reinterpret 3-D printing in a way that suggests a new design language?"
Neri Oxman"In a small powder room, the inclination is to go with a light wall color. My trick is to do the opposite - such as a patterned wallpaper or a deep color on the walls. It's more interesting and makes a design statement."
Hilary Farr"The dreaded phrase in design circles is 'show and tell.'"
David Carson"My graphic design skills are superior to a lot of other things I can do; I use it as a part of my tool kit."
Virgil Abloh"Everything we do is designed, whether we're producing a magazine, a website, or a bridge. Design is really the creative invention that designs everything."
Henry Petroski"Be intentional with your space. Don't be afraid to step on a limb and design your home the way you love it."
Joanna Gaines"I love fashion, and I simply enjoy good design in clothes and regard that as one of my hobbies."
Martha Nussbaum"In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry."
Ivanka Trump"So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward."
Genevieve Gorder"My laboratory uses evolution to design new enzymes. No one really knows how to design them - they are tremendously complicated. But we are learning how to use evolution to make new ones, just as nature does."
Frances Arnold"I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing."
Zaha Hadid"I have always been fascinated by the way things work and how they came to take the form that they did. Writing about these things satisfies my curiosity about the made world while at the same time giving me an opportunity to design a new explanation for the processes that shape it."
Henry Petroski"If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk."
Jamie Oliver"Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection."
Henry Petroski"If we want users to like our software, we should design it to behave like a likeable person."
Alan Cooper"NPR editors and journalists found themselves caught in a game of trying to please a leadership team who did not want to hear stories on the air about conservatives, the poor, or anyone who didn't fit their profitable design of NPR as the official voice of college-educated, white, liberal-leaning, upper-income America."
Juan Williams"Anything I do informs how I design. I wouldn't isolate any one activity. Everything I do feeds back to my life, and my life is expressed in my work."
Antoine Predock"Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work."
Moshe Safdie"Intelligent design is consistent with any faith system I can think of, because most faith systems believe that there is a creator."
Lee Strobel"I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design."
Yukihiro Matsumoto"I love designing bridal. I do not follow trends - I design dresses that are relevant to the times."
Naeem Khan"We had this terrible thing, this awful thing with 'Black and White' happened, where the design of 'Black and White' was actually... was hijacked by the fan sites. Because what happened is, there were so many fan sites on 'Black and White,' the hype on 'Black and White' was just ridiculously huge. It was completely out of our control."
Peter Molyneux"Because, ultimately, we can't just think of algorithms in isolation. We have to think of the failings of the people who design them - and the danger to those they are supposedly designed to serve."
Hannah Fry"User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process."
Jesse James Garrett"In the '70s and '80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science."
John Maeda"Success isn't something you achieve by accident, but rather by design."
David H. Murdock"We need to be vigilant about how we design and train these machine-learning systems, or we will see ingrained forms of bias built into the artificial intelligence of the future."
Kate Crawford"The principal and only way to make an heirloom product is to design something that people will need not just this year, but for the next 50 or 100 years."
Saul Griffith"I want to design jewelry for girls and guys... I'ma spread it out, but I'ma design, probably when I'm just designing furniture and buildings, I'll probably being the jewelry thing, too."
Tyler, The Creator"Does anyone recall hippies designing things for Generation X? Does anyone recall the elegance of that? How design was about making things simpler?"
Timothy Morton"Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture."
Tadao Ando"I design for social media. My customer reads blogs, is on social media, so I design with contrast in mind. An all-black shirt looks good on the shelf but not online. -Kerby Jean"
Raymond"When I design and wonder what the point is, I think of someone having a bad time in their life. Maybe they are sad and they wake up and put on something I have made and it makes them feel just a bit better. So, in that sense, fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But only a little."
Miuccia Prada"Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish."
Billy Graham"The universe is so unique and perfect that it could not have originated by chance but was divined by flawless, creative design."
Fritz Zwicky"The artist in me cries out for design."
Robert Frost"I design for the woman who loves being a woman."
Diane von Furstenberg"Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department."
Tom Peters"Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology."
David Bromstad"Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking."
Milton Glaser"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"I'm a big believer in the emotion of design, and the message that's sent before somebody begins to read, before they get the rest of the information; what is the emotional response they get to the product, to the story, to the painting - whatever it is."
David Carson"I'm not into fashion, but I like design. I wear the same shoes every day."
Tyler, The Creator"We have design capability, which everyone thought we sold to Microsoft, but we didn't sell it. We will maintain the Nokia feel in all our products. We can't have different products, each feeling different, in the market."
Rajeev Suri"I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side."
Tommy Hilfiger"It is difficult to separate oneself from one's design moralities."
David Chipperfield"We worked with the engineers in the design and construction and testing phases in those various areas, then we would get back together at the end of the week and brief each other as to what had gone on."
Alan Shepard"How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?"
Kinky Friedman"In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled."
Charles Stanley"Can you design a Rorschach test that's going to make everyone feel something every time - and that looks like a Rorschach test? It's easy to show a picture of a kitten or a car accident. The question is, how abstract can you get and still get the audience to feel something when they don't know what's happening to them?"
Jason Reitman"I try to look at design from a more conceptual standpoint."
Cynthia Rowley"I think fashion is a lot of fun. I love clothes. More than fashion or brand labels, I love design. I love the thought that people put into clothes. I love when clothes make cultural statements and I think personal style is really cool. I also freely recognize that fashion should be a hobby."
Anne Hathaway"This is very much my philosophy as a fashion designer. I have never believed in design for design's sake. For me, the most important thing is that people actually wear my clothes. I do not design for the catwalk or for magazine shoots - I design for customers."
Giorgio Armani"Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings."
Robert Collier"I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical."
Giorgio Armani"I like stuff designed by dead people. The old designers. They always got it right because they didn't have to grow up with computers. All of the people that made the spoon and the dishes and the vacuum cleaner didn't have microprocessors and stuff. You could do a good design back then."
John Maeda"I approve designs not because I think I am more gifted or somebody who can see ahead three or four years from now, but just to make sure that the design is a logical, rational decision, taken after analyzing pros and cons."
Carlos Ghosn"Design my own line? No, I just like the culture."
ASAP Rocky"When you buy things that are expensive, like a sofa or something that really feels like an investment, you need to keep it as plain as possible, as simple as possible. Make sure that it's a clean design that will work with whatever style you want it to."
Nate Berkus"Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions."
John Langdon"Gucci has always represented great design and contemporary lifestyle."
Marco Bizzarri"There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!"
Diane von Furstenberg"Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design."
Adam Ferguson"The future of design is a future where anything material in the environment - whether it's wearables, cars, buildings - can be designed with this variation of properties and relationship with the environment that can take part in the natural ecology."
Neri Oxman"Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose."
Charles Eames"The stylish kids on the street, they're the ones that set the trends. The designers see what they're doing and go and design their line and sell it back to the same kids, and it's like, why not go directly to the source?"
Rihanna"There is a saying in entrepreneurship that your early employees are all commandos. Commandos are people who can do almost everything well: emails, strategy, code, design."
Adeo Ressi"Gorillas are still wild creatures. That's made very clear when you observe them in nature. They charge and perform other displays that are terrifying by design. But they don't attack unless they feel threatened."
Andy Serkis"The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena."
Jaron Lanier"We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams."
Les Brown"Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor's words in speech or writing or design."
Filippo Brunelleschi"I design music; I don't produce it."
Travis Scott"I don't like the collusion between high fashion design and high street. You have to know where you stand. I belong to luxury fashion. That's what I've always felt and embraced. I like the best quality, the best fabrics and the most creative field in fashion. I will stay consistent. I belong to this world."
Hedi Slimane"Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently - the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs 'good tricks.'"
Daniel Dennett"I don't believe in planning for things. I just want them to fall in place, unfold as they like. I never design things. I want films to choose me; I don't choose films."
Pawan Kalyan"Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we design new staircase steps every day in connection with all our houses, but a standardized step depends on the height of the buildings and on all kinds of things."
Alvar Aalto"Graphic design is a hobby that I started with back in 2010-2011, which I am still doing today. And because of that, I was able to design my own stuff and designed my own logo."
Alan Walker"I think that sometimes people don't understand that a costume that has to be worn every day and doesn't change the whole movie becomes iconic. It's very important because it requires a different design process, since you have to make something that people aren't going to get tired of looking at."
Colleen Atwood"Nearly all inventions are not recognised for their positive side either when they're made. So, for example, scientists didn't go out to design a CD machine: they designed a laser. But we got all sorts of things from a laser which we never remotely imagined, and we're still finding things for a laser to do."
Robert Winston"I'm also interested in pets with alopecia. And design. I'm surprised I haven't gone through with a homeware brand. The bedding, the comforters, the candles, the this and that. I would like to design everything."
Lisa Vanderpump"We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box."
Michael Behe"Design our world so that we have positive social and environmental side effects."
Bjarke Ingels"Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role."
Dieter Rams"Design has long gone from tinkering and sketching of auteurs in isolation to a powerful catalyzer of growth."
Jens Martin Skibsted"The mission of professional mountain climbers is almost impossibly difficult by design: Their very livelihood is based on achieving the unprecedented. Their expeditions are complicated, exhausting, often life-threatening. Risk is the fuel that keeps them going."
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi"Design is about creating spaces for people to enjoy and of course, creating moments where you elevate the spirit, but 'design for good' is figuring out a program that not only creates better spaces, but creates jobs, creates new industry and really kind of raises the conversation about how we rebuild."
Cameron Sinclair"Design is an unknown."
Geoffrey Beene"The key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale."
Elon Musk"Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive; you will be able to design a house together with your family; a garden for your children; places where you can work; beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream."
Christopher Alexander"I don't design for myself. I design something keeping in mind that it has to please a lot of women."
Dries van Noten"User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project."
Donald Norman"We want to have a relationship with technology that gives us back choice about how we spend time with it, and we're going to need help from designers, because knowing this stuff doesn't help. We're going to need design help."
Tristan Harris"Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes."
D. H. Lawrence"Often the most important moment in the design process is figuring out what the right question is."
Thomas Heatherwick"My inspiration for interior design is more historical than traditional."
Patrick Cox"The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design."
Venus Williams"Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it."
James Dyson"If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers."
Bill Gates"I know what I always enjoyed about 'Flip or Flop' was the design part, so it just naturally made sense to get more involved in doing makeovers."
Christina Anstead"I studied graphic design originally. I used to like drawing, and I was quite into technical drawing. I was always interested in the visual medium, but I thought I was going to be an architect or something like that, but it's quite a lonely job."
Asif Kapadia"I think of makeup as more like a design, decoration, or jewelry. I mean, it's literally paint; it's art. I don't prefer to use it as concealing anything because it influences the illusion of standardized perfection."
Indya Moore"By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards - new architecture, design and show-off contemporary art. The Sloane domestic aesthetic - symmetry, class symbolism and brown furniture - became as unfashionable as it had been hot in the early Eighties."
Peter York"You drift through life and let things happen to you, or go by design and say, 'This is what I'm intended to do.'"
Rick Warren"I got to train with some of the best and have critics like Oscar de la Renta and Calvin Klein. As a student under Calvin Klein, my project was to make a coat, and then years later, I was hired at Calvin, by Calvin, to design coats for him. It came full circle!"
Narciso Rodriguez"If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong."
Paul Rand"Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started."
Marc Newson"Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society."
Walter Gropius"If I paid more attention to my appearance, people might think that the proficiency of design industry isn't too bad in a city with such a chief executive."
Carrie Lam"I never considered interior design as a career option. I had designed a couple of our homes, and people liked my work. Friends came forward and asked me to help them do up their homes, and that's how it started."
Gauri Khan"There are two main methodologies of open source development. There's the Apache model, which is design by committee - great for things like web servers. Then you have the benevolent dictator model. That's what Ubuntu is doing, with Mark Shuttleworth."
Matt Mullenweg"By design, Bitcoin is a scarce resource with a predictable supply of new issuance. And it is this scarcity and predictable supply that make it so attractive as an underlying asset to bind to economic activity and trade."
Jeremy Allaire"But my point is that you design something in the end that precludes any unhealthy trading practices that are not going to serve your environmental or your economic objectives but now is not the time to do it."
John Anderson"I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration."
Jil Sander"The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share."
Jaron Lanier"The main tenet of design thinking is empathy for the people you're trying to design for. Leadership is exactly the same thing - building empathy for the people that you're entrusted to help."
David M. Kelley"Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist."
Terence"I'm not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of the time, it's on my walk to work, or sitting in the subway and seeing something random or out of context."
Alexander Wang"Everyday people are not very good designers."
Donald Norman"Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste."
William Butler Yeats"Driven to design by what she refers to as the lack of glamour in the industry, Bar Or creates for the modern woman who is a fashion risk-taker, one who is confident and, perhaps, has a larger than life personality."
Aslaug Magnusdottir"If I had one golf course, from a design standpoint, one that I really love, it would probably be Pinehurst. There's a totally tree-lined golf course where trees are not a part of the strategy."
Jack Nicklaus"I don't like the idea that the first preparation when you start to design your building has to put your label. I think this is not fair. It's not fair to the building or to the people, to the client, because every building tells a different story."
Renzo Piano"As a group, we want to follow good and green strategy. Setting targets is one element of that. The second part is to design products which meet environmental goals."
Jamshyd Godrej"Design helps shape our everyday interactions through products, furniture, objects, or experiences."
Joe Gebbia"The most important relationship you have in life is the one you have with yourself. And then after that, I'd say once you have that, it may be hard work, but you can actually design your life."
Diane von Furstenberg"Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God's divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego's insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you."
Wayne Dyer"My mom loves interior design."
Camila Morrone"My affliction has been... I can make something or draw something or design something better than I can explain it."
Brad Pitt"Your home should be an extension of you and who you are as a person. If you can come home, and actually feel at home... that's fantastic design."
Jeremiah Brent"Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer."
Vera Wang"After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either."
Bjarne Stroustrup"I originally had opened the studio in New York to combine my two loves, music and design. And we created videos and packaging for many musicians that you know, and for even more that you've never heard of. As I realized, just like with many, many things in my life that I actually love, I adapt to it. And I get, over time, bored by them."
Stefan Sagmeister"What we do in the laboratory is we try to design drugs that will not just eradicate cancer cells but will eradicate their homes."
Siddhartha Mukherjee"Year after year, animal print, hides, fur, tusks et al find their way into the home as design elements in various spaces; not surprising, considering that the use of 'animalia' as decor in the home dates back centuries, when, to be fair, they didn't have the choice of faux and tended to eat the animals as well as enjoy their pelts."
Hilary Farr"There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is you need economies of scale. The other is you need to iterate on the design. You need to go through a few versions."
Elon Musk"There is great mystery in a church. For me, there is a great privilege to be confronted with the design of a church because it shelters the most powerful themes of humanity: birth, marriage, death."
Mario Botta"The cost is minimal, but one of the things that you want in a universal design is to make the plan as open as you can... and to still have walls around bedrooms and that sort of thing, and to keep the corridors wide enough so the wheelchair can do a 360 in the corridor."
Michael Graves"I don't design cars. I'm not a designer. I know what I desire to be built, I know what the end result is, the horsepower, the competition we'll be working against - but I leave it to the people who work with me to put it all together. I don't do anything."
Carroll Shelby"I was asked to design the tuxedo for Mr. Peanut. They're rebranding him. That was probably the most interesting request. I didn't spend a long time considering it."
Thom Browne"I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning."
Neri Oxman"I call my design style rustically modern. I like to take traditional or rustic features and fuse it into a more modern design."
Drew Scott"I really love muscle cars. I don't think people might realize that about me. I really want to go to an auto auction and blow my life savings on a Camaro. They have such design around them, such panache."
Alex Guarnaschelli"The only important thing about design is how it relates to people."
Victor Papanek"A true flag is not something you can really design. A true flag is torn from the soul of the people. A flag is something that everyone owns, and that's why they work. The Rainbow Flag is like other flags in that sense: it belongs to the people."
Gilbert Baker"Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and intimate and like the fire inside the earth - intense but not distorted. You can go to a place, really feel it in your heart. It's actually a beautiful feeling."
Peter Zumthor"If I have a style, I am not aware of it."
Michael Graves"In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good."
Michael Graves"I make spaces that are calm rather than confrontational. I seek a certain kind of logic that allows you to move in space and perceive it as beautiful and rational. Clarity is a worthwhile quality."
Annabelle Selldorf"The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence."
Olivier Theyskens"I have always had an interest in fashion and design and I appreciate style and timelessness within my footwear and accessories both on and off the court."
Maria Sharapova"I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale."
Brad Pitt"There is a new hunger in the air for automotive design and looking to where automobiles are going in the future. Tesla will capture this through good design and engineering."
Franz von Holzhausen"Things like anatomy and drawing and design and color had pretty much been drop-kicked out of the curriculum in the '70s, when I was studying art, in favor of abstraction and minimalism."
David Small"I was a design ethicist at Google, where I studied how do you ethically steer people's thoughts? Because what we don't talk about is how the handful of people working at a handful of technology companies through their choices will steer what a billion people are thinking today."
Tristan Harris"For every design goal you have, you have to have a corresponding measurement to know how you're doing - a way of measuring success."
Tristan Harris"Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature."
Roberto Cavalli"Art is to be free. Design is to fix."
Kanye West"So much of design is context."
Steve Madden"We all have our preferences - some people go for birds - but for me, there's just something about the wolf; the design of it is really aesthetically pleasing."
Sarah Hall"When you're 8 years old, and you've become subconsciously familiar with the layout and design of Black Sparrow books, and you know the difference between Miles Davis and John Coltrane, something is bound to stick."
Patrick deWitt"I know what I am doing with my handbag design and clothing design."
Tinsley Mortimer"I'm experimenting in public. At the design grad schools, these are people sitting around in groups, putting their work on a wall, analyzing it and putting it back in a drawer. I think there's little risk in that."
David Carson"I went through the workroom at Central Saint Martins in London, which is the most competitive workroom of a design school in the world. Very high creativity, very conceptual, very international, age-diverse and cutthroat - people who have master degrees reapplying into a foundation there is just wild to me to launch their careers."
Zac Posen"I have a notebook, and I know what decisions will be made in pre-production. Everything is pre-determined in the pre-production period. I visually design the whole thing, and I know when things will happen."
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu"I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray."
Seymour Cray"I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf."
Kate Moss"The success stories in biotechnology are mainly due to the straightforward application of design thinking in both the business and science aspects of our lean startups."
Ryan Bethencourt"I have been working with Hive, part of British Gas, on reinventing the thermostat. Now you can control your heating at the press of a button on your phone. As I say, design should permeate every part of society."
Yves Behar"I'm so fond of abstract design in the style of Vanderbilt and David Hicks and that whole 1970s era. They took the 1930s and gave it a bit of technicolour."
Jenny Packham"There is not necessarily a good reason why a regulator should have to be involved in product design and marketing for rich and sophisticated investors. We recommend that such investors should be able to sign a piece of paper, which allows them to go ahead and buy unregulated products at their own risk."
John Redwood"At our company, our Design and Construction Consulting Service Team not only helps eliminate the risks inherent in the construction process, they typically save our clients 5% - 10% on overall construction costs. They also help make sure projects come in on time."
Roger Staubach"My dad wanted me to be a professional person, which I was - I was a civil engineer. I graduated from civil engineering at USC in California. I became an engineer, and I helped design the roads for the L.A. County Roads Department. And I did that for about one and a half years in a sense to please my parents - to be a 'respectable' person."
James Hong"The problem with copyright is it only protects that literal work. It doesn't protect the design and the ideas. That's unfortunate."
Shiva Ayyadurai"I loved the idea of evolving traditional methods and design to make products that last but are also relevant for the modern age."
David Linley"Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself."
Marcus Aurelius"Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits."
Camille Paglia"Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone."
Donald Norman"Maybe at some subconscious level, things are done to upset somebody - part of me continues to see no valid reason for many of the accepted rules of design."
David Carson"I didn't think that personal style had much value in graphic design."
Stefan Sagmeister"Fashion and interior design are one and the same."
Iris Apfel"Google has placed its faith in data, while Apple worships the power of design. This dichotomy made the two companies complementary. Apple would ship the phones and computers, while Google would provide Maps, Search, YouTube, and other web tools that made the devices more useful."
Ben Parr"I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure."
Robin Day"Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next."
Tyra Banks"It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression."
Henri Matisse"It's a very strange thing for a designer to say, but one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I'm aware of designers wagging their tails in my face."
Jonathan Ive"Sacred spaces can be created in any environment."
Christy Turlington"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much."
Jim Rohn"I studied digital arts and graphic design, and then, at the same time I was studying, I was still doing auditions."
Nicole Maines"From the initial design stages of 'Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice,' we had the idea of the player being able to move dynamically through a detailed, multi-layered map. We found that a 'shinobi' type character was the key to achieving this in a way that was both realistic and cool."
Hidetaka Miyazaki"People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok."
Zaha Hadid"The math you need for most of finance is ninth-grade algebra, and most people feel reasonably comfortable with that. But I think the financial world there has been - I don't know if it's by design, or this is how it's evolved - there are bad actors who have wanted to obfuscate because you can benefit from the lack of transparency."
Sal Khan"Everything we design is a response to the specific climate and culture of a particular place."
Norman Foster"A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker."
David Hume"It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out."
Jean Nouvel"Wellness is not a 'medical fix' but a way of living - a lifestyle sensitive and responsive to all the dimensions of body, mind, and spirit, an approach to life we each design to achieve our highest potential for well-being now and forever."
Greg Anderson"Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!"
Indra Nooyi"I'm interested in technology for the masses. Good tech design should not just be for enthusiasts but for the general public. It should be something that touches everyone."
Yves Behar"I've learnt something from every failure. The products I helped design at the first two companies I worked for were utter failures. But now I know why."
Tony Fadell"Food is one part of the experience. And it has to be somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the dining experience. But the rest counts as well: The mood, the atmosphere, the music, the feeling, the design, the harmony between what you have on the plate and what surrounds the plate."
Alain Ducasse"My mom modeled and made clothes, so I always had such an appreciation for design."
Blake Lively"Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall or recite them when something in a new design or design process is suggestive of what went wrong in the case study."
Henry Petroski"There's a very important aspect to all my work, now more than ever, which is tying the interior design and architecture with the art."
Peter Marino"You've got two sets of teenagers in England - the mods and the rockers. The rockers are motorcycle addicts. The mods dress like we do. We wear four-button jackets, cuban heel boots, shirts of our own design, with high collars and a tab underneath the collar."
Dave Clark"My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling."
Jonathan Hickman"Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical."
Victor Papanek"I almost went to Central Saint Martins for fashion design. I deferred for a year when I graduated high school so that I could go model and make some money and immerse myself in the fashion industry for a year."
Hunter Schafer"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"Like many other scientists who hold the Catholic faith, I see the Creator's plan and purpose fulfilled in our universe. I see a planet bursting with evolutionary possibilities, a continuing creation in which the Divine providence is manifest in every living thing. I see a science that tells us there is indeed a design to life."
Kenneth R. Miller"Most of my ideas come from drawing patterns across conversations I have with different types of people - technology investors, young fashion design students, a CEO. This variety is stimulating and offers many different perspectives on the things I am thinking about."
Imran Amed"At least since the Industrial Revolution, the world of design has been dominated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production. Assembly lines have dictated a world made of parts, framing the imagination of designers and architects who have been trained to think about their objects as assemblies of discrete parts with distinct functions."
Neri Oxman"I made an urban-looking bicycle that could stand up to potholes. Of course, it was stolen instantly - proof of the genius of its design."
David Linley"A product can live on one great idea. An interior needs 1,000 great ideas to really live, which makes interior design a whole orchestration of this art of juxtaposition, placement, and combination."
Marcel Wanders"Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products."
James Dyson"But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?"
Mary Astell"I love to design. I am a commercial fashion designer. I always design jackets with two sleeves. I don't design jackets with three sleeves, or the layers and layers come off like little dolls from Russia. Fashion for me is a creative endeavor, but it is not art for me."
Tom Ford"Ninety percent of games lose money; 10 percent make a lot of money. And there's a consistency around the competitive advantages you create, so if you can actually learn how to do the art, the design, and the programming, you would be consistently very profitable."
Gabe Newell"The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference."
Richard Dawkins"Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus."
David Hockney"We experience happiness as a series of pleasing moments. They come and go like clouds, unpredictable, fleeting, and without responsibility to our desires. Through honest self-work, reflection, and meditation, we begin to string more of these moments together, creating a web-like design of happiness that drapes around our lives."
Tara Stiles"Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design."
Stephen Gardiner"Porsche's and Apple's design philosophies are similar. Much like the 356, the original iPhone was about defining a foundation for the future."
Om Malik"I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic."
James Dyson"Because every design must satisfy competing objectives, there necessarily has to be compromise among, if not the complete exclusion of, some of those objectives, in order to meet what are considered the more important of them."
Henry Petroski"I am a fashion designer. I'm not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning, number one I'm a mother and a wife, and number two I design clothes. So the main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer."
Stella McCartney"To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you're dealing with form as a sculptor, you feel that you are quite free in attempting to mould and shape things you want to do, but in architecture, it's much more difficult because it has to have a function."
I. M. Pei"The maker movement is about people who want to gain more control of the human design world that they interact with every day. Instead of accepting off-the-shelf solutions from institutions and corporations, makers would like to make, modify, and repair their own tools, clothing, food, toys, furniture, and other physical objects."
Mark Frauenfelder"I hate going out for lunch during a workday because it slows down my pace and ruins my rhythm. I prefer to eat at my desk. Actually, I wander around the design studio with a plate in my hand as I dine on, for example, salmon sashimi and a salad of tomatoes and mozzarella. I often have a bit of dark chocolate after lunch."
Tom Ford"Great French design is often about unexpected touches."
Candice Olson"I always design a landscape with fixed horizons whether it be mountains or a stone wall around a 20-foot-square plot."
Rachel Lambert Mellon"Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications."
Drew Endy"Wonderbra is such an iconic brand with strong design values and great sense of humour."
Jenny Packham"Space doesn't offer an escape from Earth's problems. And even with nuclear fuel, the transit time to nearby stars exceeds a human lifetime. Interstellar travel is therefore, in my view, an enterprise for post-humans, evolved from our species not via natural selection, but by design."
Martin Rees"I have a brilliant sound design team who's been working with me since 'Mr. Robot,' and one of the things we always think about - and it's also something we think about with cinematography - is how we get inside the characters' heads and how do we place the audience where we want them to be or how we want them to feel at any given moment."
Sam Esmail"My design preference tends towards warmth, comfort, and minimalism."
Gauri Khan"I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth."
John Adams"I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work."
Bob Dylan"I went to community college for graphic design, and I loved it, but I wasn't into the school thing, so that didn't work out."
Karrueche Tran"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"I'm an expert on how technology hijacks our psychological vulnerabilities. That's why I spent the last three years as a Design Ethicist at Google caring about how to design things in a way that defends a billion people's minds from getting hijacked."
Tristan Harris"Hey, I'm a good software engineer, but I'm not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and sandals don't translate to 'good design sense'."
Linus Torvalds"Luckily I don't have to buy shoes anymore, because I design them! I'm off tour, so I can dive in and create the shoes that I want for my line. But okay, I did buy a pair of vintage combat boots because they were so beaten up - I had to have them."
Fergie"'The Shining' is operatic and sensational and... really shocking. It has this amazing meld of classical music and modern interpretations of classical music, and incredible imagery. From the set design to the costumes, there's so much to unpack."
Dan Smith"But design has never been a Europe-only project. The best of design has global influences. And we've got to design the future immigration system to make sure that we continue to attract the brightest and best."
Matt Hancock"In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power."
Orville Wright"Graphic Design, which fulfills aesthetic needs, complies with the laws of form and exigencies of two-dimensional space; which speaks in semiotics, sans-serifs, and geometrics; which abstracts, transforms, translates, rotates, dilates, repeats, mirrors, groups, and regroups, is not good design if it is irrelevant."
Paul Rand"I wanted to be a writer as a teen... so storytelling was my first love. In my late teens, design became an obsession as I realized that I could express myself through the medium. Much later, when I founded Fuseproject in 1999, our slogan became 'design brings stories to life.'"
Yves Behar"Design is a vital component to the enrichment of our everyday lives. Japan has a very rich history and culture of design, and I feel it is a very important dialogue to open and keep evolving."
Issey Miyake"Interior design is a business of trust."
Venus Williams"As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings."
Stockwell Day"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design."
Friedrich August von Hayek"Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process."
Paul Rand"If you see a player out in public having dinner, chances are he's with his boring money manager or some boring rich guy he hopes to design a golf course for."
Dan Jenkins"The world of design has been subjugated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production."
Neri Oxman"As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality."
Zaha Hadid"When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource."
Biz Stone"Pools have their own uniqueness, design and engineering to depict culture, history or innovation."
Troy Dumais"In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route."
Charles Eames"As an artist, as I design and lay out a page, the less-important things, things I want you to spend less time looking at, I draw them very small, maybe even silhouette them. The more-important pivotal scenes, I draw them larger, maybe even a double-page spread."
Jim Lee"While a case can be made for intelligent design, I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all, it doesn't prove there's a God. If anything, intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature."
Tony Campolo"You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life."
Dorothy Dunnett"Google has withdrawn from China, arguing that it is no longer willing to design its search engine to block information that the Chinese government does not wish its citizens to have. In liberal democracies around the world, this decision has generally been greeted with enthusiasm."
Peter Singer"How do you convince somebody to host a stranger for the weekend? That's not a trivial thing. It's not something I think you can throw technology at, marketing at, or sales at. We threw design at it because that's all we knew, and in doing so, I feel like we brought a human touch to it, which is so needed."
Joe Gebbia"Hip-hop and electronic music are so similar, in the fact that they're both very visceral, have so much bass; a lot of times, it's the same tempos. The culture and some of the sound design is different but a lot of times, it's the same stuff."
Skrillex"I am very happy to design haute couture. It's a love story between couture and me."
Yves Saint Laurent"History is littered with examples of objects and inventions with a power beyond their professed purpose. Sometimes it's deliberately and maliciously factored into their design, but at other times, it's a result of thoughtless omissions."
Hannah Fry"In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design."
Steve Jobs"I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc."
Isambard K. Brunel"Aficionados of Slow design and Slow fashion use ethical and green materials to make objects - furniture, clothes, jewellery - that lift the spirit and last a lifetime rather than one catwalk season."
Carl Honore"I find airports to be purgatorial in many ways. I mean, even from the basics of the design: you know, this sort of - this muted gray and the fluorescent lights."
Jonathan Miles"It was something I was more interested in myself. When I went to see my sister dance at ballet, I was really into costumes and the arts, and my family was also supportive of whatever me and my sister wanted to do. I would say I pushed myself the most to be into design."
Christian Siriano"I turned my hand to costume design a few years ago when I created the outfits for 'This Is the Sea,' with Richard Harris and Samantha Morton. It's a very different discipline to being a fashion designer, though - you have to rein in your own vision and work to a tight brief."
John Rocha"Visual storytelling combines the narrative text of a story with creative elements to augment and enhance the traditional storytelling process. By design, it is a co-creative process resulting in an intimate, interpretive, expressive technique."
Debbie Millman"I had talked for years about doing a restaurant with Rocky Dudum, who's been my friend since I first came to San Francisco. Then Rocky's son, Jeff, said he wanted to design it, so he traveled around the country to sports restaurants like Mickey Mantle's and Michael Jordan's, and he came up with a great concept."
Willie McCovey"When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only the theoretical architect believes that you can make the concept and then sometime, somebody will come to build it."
Renzo Piano"I try to push design boundaries using new draping and fabric manipulation techniques every time I approach a new design."
Zac Posen"I have made bouquets of pleats, bouquets of flowers, bouquets of ruffles, bouquets of feathers. Often I design in mousseline, held tightly around the waist, and with something else going on all around."
Giambattista Valli"A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering."
Freeman Dyson"We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can."
David Brainerd"All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space."
Philip Johnson"Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures."
Tom Peters"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."
Burt Rutan"I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'"
Kanye West"I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in."
Kate Spade"I love to design and remodel houses, from working with the contractors to picking the colours, materials, kitchen and bathroom accessories to finally what furniture goes where. -Olivia Newton"
John"Pedestrians and cyclists are squeezed by planners into narrow and often dangerous spaces - the afterthoughts of urban design."
George Monbiot"I wouldn't know how to design. I couldn't even if I wanted to, for I can't draw, and a pair of scissors in my hands becomes a dangerous weapon."
Jean Patou"When I started my own practice, I was criticized, not because I was doing product design but because, like Le Corbusier, I was insisting on paintings in all of my buildings. I would paint wall murals in the houses that I designed, just as he did in the '20s and '30s."
Michael Graves"First, as I've always said, it all starts with product, which means having the right assortment, styles, and fits. Second is price, where we strive to offer the best quality, style, and design at a fair value. This is critically important, given the highly promotional environment we are operating in. And third, traffic."
Mickey Drexler"I'm an artist, so I love the graphic design of Instagram."
Pierce Brosnan"I couldn't write a happy movie or romantic comedy to save my life. Yes, Noel Coward's an idol, but his plays are serious to me. 'Private Lives' and 'Design for Living' both have an edge. Without psychoanalyzing myself, I think I exorcise my demons in my work."
John Logan"An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service."
Daniel J. Boorstin"You can make people feel valued or cared for by design alone. It's not purely about money. It's about how we choose to value human experience."
Thomas Heatherwick"I studied fine arts and architecture, but I decided to move into movie design because I grew up in a small town in the Marche region and spent a lot of time after school in the movie theater."
Dante Ferretti"The design process usually starts as a fantasy, with ideas that I dream of and visualize. These ideas become a reality by bringing various ingredients together, from the lifestyle of my bride, her age and sex appeal, to the textures of the finest fabrics and embroideries that we produce in my family factories in India."
Naeem Khan"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present."
Jim Rohn"People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life. -Carrie"
Anne Moss"There are two methods in software design. One is to make the program so simple, there are obviously no errors. The other is to make it so complicated, there are no obvious errors."
Tony Hoare"I am interested in all aspects of filmmaking, so I have an opinion on every aspect, so sound design, score, cinematography, editing - all that stuff I have experience doing myself, so I had a very strong idea of what I wanted, and I got, for the most part, people that were able to articulate that idea, which was nice."
Jeff Baena"To go back to architecture, what's organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale."
Greg Lynn"I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design."
Cesar Pelli"Growing up, Guess always had these amazing billboards and cool affordable clothing. I wore it then, and I still wear it now! It's come full-circle. When I design the clothes, I have a very good team around me, showing me different pieces and cuts."
Tiesto"In the end, it's clear that the incorporation of synthetic biology in product and architectural design will enable the transition from designs that are inspired by nature to designs made with and by nature to, possibly, designing nature herself."
Neri Oxman"The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process."
Gianfranco Ferre"Great product trumps all. You can have the biggest marketing budget, the biggest show, a perfect merchandising plan, but at the end of the day, it doesn't mean anything if the design and quality of the product you are offering is not compelling."
Nick Wooster"If we don't have accurate information, if we are not able to tell difficult truth one to another, we will never be able to effectively design a policy for Iraq."
Jack Reed"As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called a 'singularity.'"
Stephen Hawking"Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. It's like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level."
Robert Moog"I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture."
Ai Weiwei"Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection."
Richard Dawkins"I'm getting into interior design."
Playboi Carti"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
Douglas Adams"A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have."
Steve Jobs"Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different."
John Hockenberry"When you say 'design,' everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it's an emotive word. Everybody thinks it's how something looks, whereas for me, design is pretty much everything."
James Dyson"Choose upholstery that makes a big statement with texture, colour and design to define the space and colour that demands attention. Peacock blue with creams and warm woods looks amazing!"
Hilary Farr"I design all of my costumes. I like to go out there and feel like I have contributed to every part of what I do. I choose the music, the choreographer, I've obviously chosen my coach, my costumes - all if that falls under my realm of power, my realm of influence."
Johnny Weir"After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared."
Arthur Erickson"My place in design history is to sort of interpret youth culture, and I think we've seen that done in fashion before - it's not a new concept - but it hasn't been done with the same vigour in a modern context."
Virgil Abloh"I want to have all that scientific information that we're building be used in designing the future so that people who make geographic decisions - and here it's not just land-use planners, but it's everyone: foresters, transportation engineers, people who buy a house - can analyze all of these information layers and design a future."
Jack Dangermond"I went to high school in Ellicott City, Maryland, and I felt pretty ambivalent about the whole thing. It just took time away from my doing things on the Internet - like creating clans in Quake II or starting a Web design nonprofit. In school, I was just a kid. Online, I had authority."
Alexis Ohanian"It is so important to be really true to yourself in design, and I am."
Thom Browne"My job is to make desirable, luxurious, beautiful clothing and accessories women want to buy. My first decision is always based on, 'Can I do this in a more sustainable way without sacrificing design?' If I can, then there is no reason not to."
Stella McCartney"Good design for the home should be universal. A house should be like old shoes, comfortable, like a good friend... The Japanese aesthetic is important to me. Very organic. They have a sense of the weight of the thing: very balanced."
Elsa Peretti"There are many designers who have much greater talent as a designer than I do, but they may not have my drive, they may not work as hard, they may not have the focus, the desire... You have to have a talent because, at the end of the day, if the pants you design don't make someone's butt look great, they're not going to buy them."
Tom Ford