Design Quotes

IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film.

About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?

So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.

The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process.

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.

The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times.

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.

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.

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.

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.

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.

I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.

Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.

The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it.

Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design.

Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.

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.

It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.

I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.

Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.

I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.

We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design.

There are two kinds of designers: ones who are very happy locked in their office surrounded by their coterie. The last thing they need to do is to go to a trunk show; they'd go running for the hills. I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it?

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.'

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?

Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature.

The primary factor is proportions.

I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing.