Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jody Williams

Guns go home with the soldiers, but landmines are designed to kill - mindlessly, out of control, for years.

Going undersea requires a much more robust design. Pressure does horrendous things to technology.

Max Azria

For me, one of the biggest designers is Azzedine Alaia. Everything he is doing is fantastic.

What mediation is designed for is to resolve disputes on the value on a claim, not whether there is a claim.

We try to make things user-friendly. We try to use information designed to facilitate quick understanding.

Philip Treacy

What I love most about Her Majesty is that she has kept hats alive in people's minds for more than 60 years. You can't think of her without imagining her with a hat or a crown. I would, of course, love to design one for her.

We've found so much more material. There really was only so much time to put in the original design.

He's going to be a major, major factor for us this season. I know he didn't design it that way, but he did what he had to do to get us out of it.

The railroad was designed in late 1868 and running trains in October of 1869, nine months after its design. We have been working for 14 years and have 1.4 miles built.

We make a practice of being on- site for the initial install of every site. OSP engineers have joked with me that I must have worked in the field because the platform is designed to accommodate the 'fat fingers' of the field technician, rather than the manicured hands of a laboratory engineer.

Ken Jennings

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.

Keith Teare

Path is a well designed app with a singular purpose. For users who solely want to share with a small group of friends, and share everything with the whole group, it is very effective. And of course, it is wonderfully designed. Just.me isn't better or worse, it's just very different. Just.me is a messaging application, not just a sharing app.

HP welcomed the new design because fundamentally, the cores were fatter. It was a real win in terms of being competitive with our primary competitor, which is (IBM's) Power.

I thought she would say she wanted something like designer jeans, which would have been hard to get.

I think a Fashionista is someone who loves style, loves design and loves life.

He had two things in his life -- his work and his family. He was always designing things, even when we went on vacation when we were kids. He was a true design engineer.

Charles Pierce

He has suffused the entire design with a light and transparency that is truly extraordinary.

He never really seemed to take off as decisively as he has this year. We can put in a lot more designed plays.

Warren Spector

For most developers, that kind of situation - a player figuring out how to do something that the designer didn't intend - to most developers, that's a bug. For me, that's a celebration.

Michael Graves

Form must never trump function. Some objects are made to look so smooth, you don't know where to pick them up or how to turn them on. If I'm designing a garlic press or cheese grater, I need my hand to fit comfortably on it. I like to know, instinctively, how to use it.

George Pell

If that's the case, I'd be happy for them to talk about design or intelligent design,

Roz Savage

I was the child at school in second-hand or handmade clothes and, as I grew older, I craved material wealth, a big house and designer clothes.

Mike Scioscia

I guess I haven't seen that play work since Willie Mays Hayes (movie Major League). It's a great hustle play. I don't think we'll design it or use it again, but it worked out tonight.

John Sweeney

If we have a completely different design that's different from anything else, we have a great opportunity to do well. So that's the key.

I got into design in my freshman year but I'm also interested in architecture.

Gary Hamel

At the pinnacle of great design are products so gorgeous and lust-worthy that you want to lick them: a Porsche 911, Samsung's Luxia TV, an Eames lounge chair or anything by Loro Piana.

Greg Lynn

It turns out it's not rocket science to design a sacred space.

Burt Rutan

The most impressive airplane ever, I believe, was designed only a dozen years after the first operational jet. Stayed in service till it was too rusty to fly, taken out of service. We retreated in '98 back to something that was developed in '56. What? The most impressive spaceship ever, I believe, was a Grumman Lunar Lander.

Frank Gehry

A lot of people don't get it, but I design from the inside out so that the finished product looks inevitable somehow. I think it's important to create spaces that people like to be in, that are humanistic.

I started dressing vintage when I was a teenager because I didn't have money for designer clothes.

Diane von Furstenberg

The most important relationship you have in life is the one you have with yourself. And then after that, I'd say once you have that, it may be hard work, but you can actually design your life.

Homaro Cantu

I was just taught very early that if I didn't solve problems, I was headed for a very dark path. Problems were everywhere. Now, even if there are no problems, I look for problems. I'm like, 'You know what? I don't like the way this spoon works. I want to design a new spoon.'

Henry Petroski

Everything we do is designed, whether we're producing a magazine, a website, or a bridge. Design is really the creative invention that designs everything.