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- Can you design a Rorschach test that's going to make everyone feel something every time - and that looks like a Rorschach test? It's easy to show a picture of a kitten or a car accident. The question is, how abstract can you get and still get the audience to feel something when they don't know what's happening to them?
- Jason Reitman on Design
- Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated.
- Niklaus Wirth on Design
- Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.
- Pierre Bonnard on Design
- Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.
- Christopher Alexander on Design
- Computers are scary. They're nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this. He knew that computers were bulky and hernia-inducing and Darth Vader black. He understood the value of declarative design.
- Wesley Morris on Design
- Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.
- Milton Glaser on Design
- Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
- Miguel De Cervantes on Design
- Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.
- James Dyson on Design
- Design can change how you look at yourself.
- Ty Pennington on Design
- Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.
- Genevieve Gorder on Design
- Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.
- Richard Dawkins on Design
- Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be.
- Dennis Conner on Design
- 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.
- David Herbert Lawrence on Design
- Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.
- Donna Karan on Design
- Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.
- Steve Jobs on Design
- Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.
- Charles Eames on Design
- Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.
- Jonathan Ive on Design
- Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.
- Design is an unknown.
- Geoffrey Beene on Design
- Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.
- Ivan Chermayeff on Design
- Design is everything. Everything!
- Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.
- Carlos Ghosn on Design
- Design is not for philosophy it's for life.
- Issey Miyake on Design
- Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
- Steve Jobs on Design
- Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
- Louis Kahn on Design
- Design is people.
- Jane Jacobs on Design
- Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department.
- Tom Peters on Design
- Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.
- Steve Jobs on Design
- Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.
- Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.
- Thomas J. Watson on Design
- Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response.
- April Greiman on Design
- Design my own line? No, I just like the culture.
- ASAP Rocky on Design
- Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.
- Marc Newson on Design
- Design works if it's authentic, inspired, and has a clear point of view. It can't be a collection of input.
- Ron Johnson on Design
- Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.
- Clement Mok on Design
- Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.
- Tyra Banks on Design
- Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture.
- Ellen DeGeneres on Design
- Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.
- Kenzo Tange on Design
- Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.
- B. J. Novak on Design
- Dubstep has everything for me. Rhythm, sound design, heartfelt emotion - all in one place.
- James Blake on Design
- Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.
- Herbert Simon on Design
- English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market.
- Norman Spinrad on Design
- Even as a young boy, my passion was to design, and I have been very lucky to be able to do what I have loved all my life. There can be few greater gifts than that.
- Valentino Garavani on Design
- Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.
- Isaac Barrow on Design
- Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.
- Maria Sharapova on Design
- Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.
- Robert Collier on Design
- Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.
- Adam Ferguson on Design
- Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do.
- Paul Graham on Design
- Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.
- Herbert Simon on Design
- Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product it's an understanding of human nature.
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