Design Quotes

One of the talents of the [late] great Steve Jobs is that he [knew] how to design Medusa-like produc...

I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.

As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve thei...

In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.

It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natura...

The mind is not designed to grasp the laws of probability, even though the laws rule the universe.

A design can excel at one challenge only by compromising at others.

Humans are often credited with having real foresight, in distinction to the rest of biology which do...

Good design is good business.

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primar...

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractiv...

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processe...

Every page should explode, either because of its staggering absurdity, the enthusiasm of its princip...

- It doesn't do anything obvious. But it might be able to do something in here. - Then she touched h...

Steve and I spent a lot of time on the packaging," said Ive. " I love the process of unpacking somet...

Early on, Mike Markkula had taught Jobs to "impute" - to understand that people do judge a book by i...

for Steve, less is always more, simpler is always better. Therefore, if you can build a glass box wi...

So that’s our approach. Very simple, and we’re really shooting for Museum of Modern Art quality. The...

When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.

Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring o...

You see, the penis, it's so graceless, wouldn't you agree? When it's cold and shrivelled up, it look...

I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Prof...

I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design...

It is ridiculous to lay down to people where a thing should stand, design everything for them from t...

I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's in...

Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a...

For us to deem a work of architecture elegant, it is hence not enough that it look simple: we must f...

[Donald] Keene observed [in a book entitled The Pleasures of Japanese Literature, 1988] that the Jap...

I think fashion is a lot of fun. I love clothes. More than fashion or brand labels, I love design. I...

Ah, but prophecies have a way of fulfilling themselves,' Khayman said. 'That's the magic of it. We a...

You all know the argument from design: everything in the world is made just so that we can manage to...

Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kin...

Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kin...

Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kin...

Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kin...

Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kin...

Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kin...

Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kin...

Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kin...

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind th...

I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Genome design is going to be a key part of the future. That's why we need fast, cheap, accurate DNA ...

At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

The evidence in this universe for design - or, if you will, the fine-tuning that cannot be explained...

So we originally expected to make about 35 gigawatt hours at the cell level and about 50 gigawatt ho...

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

It's not all that important that you be able to originate brilliant ideas... The more important tale...

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

Space is the breath of art.

The universe is so unique and perfect that it could not have originated by chance but was divined by...

When the image is new, the world is new.

You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really y...

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but ...

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

When one ponders on the tremendous journey of evolution over the past three billion years or so, the...

If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports j...

[Public housing projects] are not lacking in natural leaders,' [Ellen Lurie, a social worker in East...

As children get older, this incidental outdoor activity--say, while waiting to be called to eat--bec...

I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.

Things don't always look as they seem. Some stars, for example, look like bright pinholes, but when ...

But my point is that you design something in the end that precludes any unhealthy trading practices ...

design is so important because chaos is so hard

Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.

Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.

The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childis...

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job.

The roses started him thinking, how the oddity of them was beautiful and how that oddity was contriv...

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous...

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Hus...

An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general object...

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that wou...

Peter Fleming was a famous English traveler, explorer and adventurer, whose non-fiction books were h...

Perceiving the world as well designed and thus the product of a designer, and even seeing divine pro...

Did I know myself less, I might perhaps venture to handle something or other to the bottom, and to b...

There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete yo...

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, e...

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. Duri...

Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and tha...