Design Quotes
- Page 4At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.
Jim Henson
Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.
Kevin Kelly
If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.
Guido van Rossum
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
In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
Samuel E. Morison
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
Louis Kahn
It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format.
Donald Norman
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
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
No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.
Michael Ende
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
It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
Richard Steele
The Final Jeopardy! questions seem to be, by design, things you can't know. And so it's not about who knows them, but who can figure them out in thirty seconds.
Ken Jennings
The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
Jean Cocteau
It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.
George Edmund Street
I'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life.
Drew Barrymore
I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.
Yukihiro Matsumoto
Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.
Herbert Simon
For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.
Kim Campbell
Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club.
Jack Nicklaus
I love graphic design. I love working with design, and I love storytelling, so I've been working on a children's book for a while, and I'd like to see that through.
Colleen Haskell
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
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
I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.
Len Wein
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