Design Quotes

As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design.

Gianfranco Ferre

Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

George Gilder

There's a perennial debate about whether the propagandistic tripe produced by establishment media outlets is shaped more by evil or by stupidity. Personally, I think it's both: a healthy dose of each is needed. The system design is malicious, while t...

Glenn Greenwald

Embedded in 'The New York Times' institutional perspective and reporting methodologies are all sorts of quite debatable and subjective political and cultural assumptions about the world. And with some noble exceptions, 'The Times,' by design or other...

Glenn Greenwald

I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.

Gary Hamel

The way I define 'intelligent design' is that when people started out, we wanted to make sense of the world we lived in, so we created stories about how things worked.

George Lucas

With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces.

Greg Lynn

Flying through a hurricane is the most fearsome shaking you will ever get. Everything has to be tied down in the airplane. And the IMAX camera has to be rock-steady through all this. We had to design special mounts on the left and right sides of the ...

Greg MacGillivray

If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.

Guido van Rossum

It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.

George Edmund Street

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

George Santayana

Obamacare is terminal. It is going to fail under the crushing weight of its own flawed design.

Glenn Thompson

I have made bouquets of pleats, bouquets of flowers, bouquets of ruffles, bouquets of feathers. Often I design in mousseline, held tightly around the waist, and with something else going on all around.

Giambattista Valli

I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.

Gianni Versace

You cannot design shoes if you only think about fashion; it's too realistic. When I design, I dream.

Giuseppe Zanotti

I was just taught very early that if I didn't solve problems, I was headed for a very dark path. Problems were everywhere. Now, even if there are no problems, I look for problems. I'm like, 'You know what? I don't like the way this spoon works. I wan...

Homaro Cantu

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

Henri Matisse

Any design, whether it's for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.

Henry Petroski

You can almost say that a design error is a human error because, after all, it's we humans who do the designing.

Henry Petroski

No design, no matter how common or seemingly insignificant, is without its adamant critics as well as its ardent admirers.

Henry Petroski

Design is nothing if not decision making.

Henry Petroski