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.
And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight.
I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
If I had spent as much time in the weight room as I did designing football uniforms, I probably would have had a free college education.
Like many great world faiths, Mormonism has an important strand of sacred mystery. Mormon temples have traditionally been closed to outsiders and designed with opaque windows.
One of the great things about the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, which my company iRobot designed, is that it's too cheap not to be autonomous.
Android is one of the most open systems I've ever seen. What makes Android great is it's literally designed from the ground up to be customised in a very powerful way.
As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.
