Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Henry Petroski

Any design, whether it's for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.

Henry Petroski

You can almost say that a design error is a human error because, after all, it's we humans who do the designing.

Henry Petroski

It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage introduced through redesign, there is an accompanying unintended disadvantage.

Diane von Furstenberg

I have always been attracted to clothes designed by women. Coco Chanel, Vionnet, Norma Kamali, Donna Karan. They have a little more - how do I put it? - understanding.

Diane von Furstenberg

I never like to think that I design for a particular person. I design for the woman I wanted to be, the woman I used to be, and - to some degree - the woman I'm still a little piece of.

Bronson Pelletier

I'm getting offered roles that aren't designed for aboriginal people; they're designed for anybody. It's pretty surreal and mind-blowing.

Carl Honore

Aficionados of Slow design and Slow fashion use ethical and green materials to make objects - furniture, clothes, jewellery - that lift the spirit and last a lifetime rather than one catwalk season.

Antoine Predock

Anything I do informs how I design. I wouldn't isolate any one activity. Everything I do feeds back to my life, and my life is expressed in my work.

This will enable us to do the design in-house.

The parking lot on the north side of Second St. will have the same design as the one being constructed on the south side of the street.

Marty Schottenheimer

To be able to do what they have done in an era in which everything is designed to get people to be .500 win-loss percentage, and they go out and win three championships in four years, to me that's remarkable.

The play wasn't designed to go to me, it was just whoever got open. They tripled-teamed me and did a good job of getting their hands on it.

Danny Granger

The play wasn't designed for me. I thought we were going to get a five-second call. I just went and got the ball, but there wasn't much I could do with it. He (Wallace) knew we needed a three, so he knew I wasn't going to drive by him. There just wasn't much there.

David Rose

There are already a lot of devices in our lives that have rich text or the ability to handle graphics. Our devices are designed to be understood in less than a quarter of a second.

This roundabout we have under design is going to be constructed in a way that will work. It will be wide enough for the hay trucks and the emergency vehicles. We're not reinventing the wheel.

John Murphy

This researched and thoughtfully designed garden can be a source of healing for those suffering from a number of mental and physical limitations.

There is a big difference in this facility regarding the parking and storage of vehicles. We designed the route to have mostly driver side turns for safety issues.

We keep thinking these designer dogs are just a fad, but year after year goes by, and they're still popular.

We think that it's a good design. It also speeds up the process.

We've designed our units so you can drive right inside to unload. A car, truck, even a semi will fit inside -- and that's a real convenience when you're working in our often harsh Minnesota winters.

We've designed it and prepared ourselves that if we have to multi-tenant it we will.

To me, the design drawing shows it should have been at minus 17. I don't know what (the LSU team) is doing and how they're getting minus 10. We're looking into it.

This tool is designed to solve a very real problem. What we hope is the folks it was designed for will embrace it as quickly as possible.

We don't want to be known as the 'Intelligent Design University,' ... We don't think this is science.

Kurt Vonnegut

They say, you know, about evolution, it surely happened because their fossil record shows that. Look, my body and your body are miracles of design. Scientists are pretending they have the answer as how we got this way when natural selection couldn't possibly have produced such machines.

David Karp

Where I feel the most productive and engaged is when I'm buried in code, buried in some project, tweaking some designs. I'm certainly introverted.

David Eagleman

Love was not specified in the design of your brain; it is merely an endearing algorithm that freeloads on the leftover processing cycles.

Dave Thomas

If you like your remote messaging fat, dumb, and interoperable, you could also look into the SOAP libraries distributed with Ruby.

David Ogilvy

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.

Clement Mok

Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era.