If we don't have accurate information, if we are not able to tell difficult truth one to another, we will never be able to effectively design a policy for Iraq.
A part of my kind of design and inspiration ethos is that I carry around a leather notebook and I sketch in it, doodle in it, write notes in it, and I put pictures in it.
Nothing I do is by design. It's always the result of a happy accident. I didn't have a career plan. It has just become the way it is. It's all good fun.
The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.
If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the jeans, the design of belts and boots, the haircut, the number and size of earrings.
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good.
So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.
Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school.
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.
A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.
There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.
I'm representative of 21st century Irish design, so I promote Irishness all over the world wherever I go.
I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.
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.
By appreciating the darkness when you design the light, you create much more interesting environments that truly enhance our lives.
So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.
I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.
If I were a rock star, I'd design my own clothes. I'd do it because that's the mark of a true rock star.
As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called a 'singularity.'
In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.
