What people respond to in my room makeovers is the daring design - fearless colors, bold fabrics and occasionally outlandish decor.
The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.
Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it.
At the most basic level, prioritizing design also represents a practical consideration. It's far easier to design first and engineer later.
I always design a landscape with fixed horizons whether it be mountains or a stone wall around a 20-foot-square plot.
Classical design is a mirror of the human mind. It's how we see the world.
Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?
The principal and only way to make an heirloom product is to design something that people will need not just this year, but for the next 50 or 100 years.
If you write your own tools, you can sort of see new things, design new things.
I like to think that the Internet and file sharing, if utilized properly and embraced, and I emphasize properly, is a high-powered marketing design.
I might want to open a hotel and design all the rooms. Or maybe a museum that lets me curate all the events.
Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
I've never tried to pass myself off as anything more than a comedian who wrote a dating book.
When I was on the ice, in the lights, with the music and the motion, there was a certain kind of flirtation that gave great energy and expressiveness to my performance.
When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces.
I really like all music, but mostly Country, older R&B, and the good classic rock.
You can do more good by being good than any other way.
Raising taxes in an economic downturn is not a good idea.
So companies have to be very schizophrenic. On one hand, they have to maintain continuity of strategy. But they also have to be good at continuously improving.
In our lives, we have good things and bad things, happiness and pain.
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
