design
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘design’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it’s difficult to quantify the attachment.” -Tadao Ando
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“I’ve never had anyone define purity. You probably can’t define purity. Purity is to live according to original design.” -Josh McDowell
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“I’d like to do a lot of things – whether in design or architecture or business.” -Caroline Wozniacki
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“I studied literature design and fashion design.” -Danielle Steel
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“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.” -Clement Mok
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“I majored in fashion design in school, and I have always wanted to design my own line of clothing, jewelry, and stuff like that so this was just a step for me in that direction.” -Diana Ross
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“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
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“Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.” -Kevin Kelly
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“Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.” -Donna Karan
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“Design my own line? No, I just like the culture.” -ASAP Rocky
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“I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it’s often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.” -Pharrell Williams
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“If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny.” -Steve Wozniak
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“No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today.” -Joshua Foer
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“In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.” -Charles Eames
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“God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.” -Mary Astell
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“Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don’t care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.” -Tim Berners-Lee
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“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
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“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
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“I am extremely involved in the design process of both my brands, Winter Kate and House of Harlow 1960.” -Nicole Richie
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“What I’ve learned from different designers is that it’s key to be true to who you are and your vision. That’s always been my line of thinking. Working through the whole design process, I don’t want to create something I wouldn’t be proud to wear.” -Kellan Lutz
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“I learn my lines while on the golf course. I try to do two or three things at once. I have ideas for books all the time, I have ideas for paintings all the time, and I write them all down. I take my sketchpad and my iPad, which I design on, and I do…
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“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
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“There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.” -Rudy Giuliani
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“To be able to design for the plus-sized consumer, for me, that’s just beyond. It’s a dream.” -Khloe Kardashian
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“I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.” -Robert Rodriguez
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“In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.” -Orville Wright
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“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
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“If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.” -Jamie Oliver
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“Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department.” -Tom Peters
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“Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.” -James Dyson
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“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…
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“I’m drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.” -Brad Pitt
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“McSweeney’s as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.” -Dave Eggers
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“When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It’s limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.” -Larry Wall
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“I’ve always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn’t a singer I’d probably be in stage setting or interior design or something. I like clutter and I’m quite visually greedy. I can’t have things to be plain I have to have things looking interesting… maybe I’m just a frustrated interior designer…
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“I think a lot of times people design restaurants with flash in mind. I think you should design restaurants with function in mind. Make sure it’s functional and works with what you’re trying to accomplish. Design can come later.” -Bobby Flay
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“When I come to a design decision, people know that is that.” -Carlos Ghosn
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“It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.” -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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“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…
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“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
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“So, I’m always around video games but I’ve always been interested in them from a visual perspective, with the graphic design and that whole thing. I don’t know if that comes from my love of photography or what but that’s always what’s held my interest about them.” -Sophia Bush
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“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…
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“I mean, I think about it, but I don’t design my record to get a certain public response.” -Liz Phair
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“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.” -Marc Jacobs
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“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
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“A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I’d certainly answer their questions, but I’m not involved in the…
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“A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes – as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was.” -Jeffrey Kluger
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“Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature.” -Roberto Cavalli
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“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
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“No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.” -Arthur Erickson
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“I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.” -Vera Wang
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“Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.” -John Malkovich
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“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
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“I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I’ve always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it’s late.” -Alexander McQueen
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“Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.” -James Wolcott
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“Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that’s kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and…
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“A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.” -Charlie Byrd
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“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.” -David Rockefeller
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“We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that’ s what we’re intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world.” -Jim Henson
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“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
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“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
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“At some point in your life, if you’re lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.” -Daniel Day-Lewis
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“It’s all in how you arrange the thing… the careful balance of the design is the motion.” -Andrew Wyeth
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“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.”…
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“Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.” -Maria Sharapova
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“I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.” -Mikhail Kalashnikov
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“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
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“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
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“People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.” -Calvin Klein
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“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 Simon
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“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
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“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
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“Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“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
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“Designing is my hobby. If I didn’t do what I do for a living – at some point when I don’t do this for a living – I’ll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture.” -Ellen DeGeneres
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“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
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“Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.” -George Santayana
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“Art has to move you and design does not, unless it’s a good design for a bus.” -David Hockney
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“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
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“I really see myself continuing to design clothes, fragrances.” -Kim Kardashian
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“How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?” -Kinky Friedman
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“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.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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“Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.” -Freeman Thomas
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“I don’t act, I don’t direct, I don’t design.” -Tom Stoppard
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“A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.” -David Hume
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“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
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“The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not…
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“Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.” -Ivan Chermayeff
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“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
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“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.” -Douglas Adams
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“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
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“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
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“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.” -Bill Gates
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“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…
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“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
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“The computer can’t tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what’s missing is the eyebrows.” -Frank Zappa
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“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
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“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
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“Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn’t work.” -Lance Armstrong
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“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
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“I design for the woman who loves being a woman.” -Diane von Furstenberg
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“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.” -Mitchell Kapor
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“A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.” -Edith Head
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“The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.” -Leo Fender
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“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
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“I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn’t endure.” -Robin Day
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“Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.” -Kenzo Tange
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“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
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“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
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“Sacred spaces can be created in any environment.” -Christy Turlington
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“Design works if it’s authentic, inspired, and has a clear point of view. It can’t be a collection of input.” -Ron Johnson
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“Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.” -Terence
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“Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.” -Miguel de Cervantes
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“Color does not add a pleasant quality to design – it reinforces it.” -Pierre Bonnard
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“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
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“Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.” -Louis Kahn
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“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
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“Design is not for philosophy it’s for life.” -Issey Miyake
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“About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.” -Manolo Blahnik
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“This is what I like about being a designer: You can’t really get it until you see it.” -Isaac Mizrahi
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“To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.” -Charles J. Givens
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“I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.” -Gianni Versace
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“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
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“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
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“Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.” -Erma Bombeck
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“Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.” -Samuel Johnson
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“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
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“I don’t design clothes, I design dreams.” -Ralph Lauren
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“Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You’re in one minute, out the next.” -Tyra Banks
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“Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all… good design must primarily serve people.” -Thomas J. Watson
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“The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.” -Harry Bertoia
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“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
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“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
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