The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.
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.
You have to design and program differently. Combat action in an MMO is so different to combat in a first-person shooter.
The themes in WordPress drive a lot of design trends. It democratizes design... You make a theme, and suddenly it's on hundreds and thousands of sites.
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.
The point is that I don't design stuff for myself. I'm a toolmaker. I design things that other people want to use.
It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.
It’s through diverse opinions and perspectives that a dynamic organisation can drive innovation and create its competitive advantage.
Sometimes I'm kind of spacey. I'm like Ferdinand the bull, sniffing the daisy, not aware of time, of what's going on in the real world.
My feeling is that if you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.
You can almost say that a design error is a human error because, after all, it's we humans who do the designing.
If you watched companies such as Sony and Samsung grow, they focused first on features and then on industrial design, which made their products look and feel better.
A weapon kills people and makes people in cities dominated by fear. But if you turn it into an instrument, it's like social gold. It brings people together and you build trust.
I wish we hadn't used all the keys on the keyboard.
When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella.
In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.
Everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear. When I set out to design a reactor, I knew it had to be passive and intrinsically safe.
Providing 'freemium' cloud storage to society is not a crime. What will Hollywood do when smartphones and tablets can wirelessly transfer a movie file within milliseconds?
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.
When you say 'design,' everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it's an emotive word. Everybody thinks it's how something looks, whereas for me, design is pretty much everything.
