Design Quotes

Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live.

The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually.

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.

Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications.

The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.

The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995.

For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme.

Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.

Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do.

Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.

Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.

I'm opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I don't waver.

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

For me, if I can design beautiful things that have the price be lower, I am thrilled.

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.

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.

Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.

Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.

It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.

As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design.

Good design doesn't date.

I used to design for my body, which was flat-chested with big hips. That's why my clothes were tight on top with full skirts.

At 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.

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.

If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.

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.

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.

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.