Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dries van Noten

In the design process, there's a need to be culturally comprehensive.

Norman Foster

I describe the design process as like the tip of the iceberg. What you don't see is the long haul: all the endless auditing and things like that.

Peter Singer

Most of the robots being developed for home use are functional in design - Gecko's homecare robot looks rather like the Star Wars robot R2-D2. Honda and Sony are designing robots that look more like the same movie's 'android' C-3PO.

Ted Naifeh

Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader's attention.

Tamara Tunie

I adore the designer B. Michael's curve-flattering gowns, but there is nothing better than jeans with a crisp white shirt.

Stewart Butterfield

I think of myself more as a designer than a serial entrepreneur. As a designer, the easiest way to see that something happens is to start a company and then be the boss, and then people have to do what you say.

Stewart Butterfield

Flickr was designed partly to market itself. There are a lot features, in place early on, that let people take their photo, upload it to Flickr and post them elsewhere, on their own Web site or their blog, which meant a lot of incoming links.

I hate the idea of getting in a building that someone else has designed and having to do something to it yourself to sort of dress it up - it's like using presets in your tracks.

Few service industries are designed to be 24x7 in India, and thus there was no 24x7 mentality.

Victor Papanek

There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few.

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

Bre Pettis

You can go from creating the design on your iPad to making the object on your MakerBot.

Bjarke Ingels

Sustainability can't be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a design challenge.

Many people decorate their homes with designer graffiti, even though most of them would probably have real graffiti scoured off the walls of their buildings.

Anna Wintour

It is so important for designers not to run scared, and not to be too worried about what's safe and what's commercial.

Alan Cooper

Design is not so much a design issue as a power struggle.

Albert Barnes

The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest.

We set a standard of design excellence that is the most sophisticated stadium that has ever been built.

Brad Soderberg

Tommie didn't get a great shot. There's a great player that made a great play. It wasn't a great designed play. He just made it work.

Stephen Hawking

As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called a 'singularity.'

Calvin Klein

People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.

When you go to a site, you usually run into usability problems pretty quickly. They're not hidden. They're not complicated. They're not baffling. They were in the design or crept into the design.

We've got to do things differently if we're going to reform our schools. You've got to stretch kids. State tests were never designed to be the end line. They've got to keep being reformed. In the quest to raise standards, you may have lowered them for other students.

David Taylor

With early Jensen silver jewelry there's interplay of Realism and Impressionism, of light and shadow, so the designer sets up a dialogue.

We need to design our systems to fit within this set of thermal envelopes.

Ben Crenshaw

The reason the Road hole at St. Andrews is the most difficult par 4in the world is that it was designed as a par 6.

Evan Williams

Twitter was designed to be this system that you just scan for information that's important or useful to you and then walk away, and if you wanna take a break you take a break.

When I met Dante I didn't work in the movies, but I enjoyed so much the movies. I worked in interior design and when I met Dante, we tried to do something together.

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.