Design Quotes

I won't give up my day job of design.

The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.

At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

There were IBM logos designed for the film, and there were IBM design consultants working with Kubrick on the layout of the controls and computer screens.

Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.

In its report, the Cox Committee concludes that China is using stolen U.S. design information to speed up its deployment of a new nuclear missile force.

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

We want people to realize you are at a design school, not a land grant college. The way we look says a great deal about who we are.

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.

I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive.

We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.

Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

Computers are scary. They're nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this. He knew that computers were bulky and hernia-inducing and Darth Vader black. He understood the value of declarative design.

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

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.

Initially, it was the unpractical in fashion that brought me to design my own line. I felt that it was much more attractive to cut clothes with respect for the living, three-dimensional body rather than to cover the body with decorative ideas.

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.

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.

After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either.

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.

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.

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.

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me.

I wear a lot of different hats - from writer to producer and artist. We all do 5 or 6 jobs, everything from creating our own graphic design to actually recording and the whole bit.