Design Quotes

"The artist in me cries out for design."

"Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it."

"Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance."

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

"You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality."

"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."

"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."

"Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste."

"If it be the design of Providence to extirpate these savages in order to make room for the cultivation of the earth, it seems not improbable that rum may be the appointed means."

"When your design stinks, Engineering 101 says admit your mistakes and go back to the drawing board,"

"the blues is a chair, not a design for a chair or a better chair . . . it is the first chair. It is a chair for sitting on, not for looking at. You sit on that music."

"By design, our licensing structure enables nimble and forward-thinking system manufacturers to disadvantage their competitors."

"The aim of human rights, if I may borrow a term from engineering, is to move beyond the design and drawing-board phase, to move beyond thinking and talking about the foundations stones - to laying those foundation stones, inch by inch, together."

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

"We're confident that we can make design enhancements that will result in a richer product mix, ... We hope this will be a one-quarter event."

"To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past."

"Its superb design takes a humble but historic utilitarian structure and modernizes it. Yet it feels like it's been there the whole time."

"Flash gives us more room for design and for making the products more portable and smaller."

"The solutions to the problem are relatively simple. We can design seats and head restraints that are not expensive, that can eliminate a lot of these injuries."

"Without aesthetic, design is either the humdrum repetition of familiar cliches or a wild scramble for novelty. Without the aesthetic, the computer is but a mindless speed machine, producing effects without substance. Form without relevant content, or content without meaningful form."