Design Quotes

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. (Robert A. Heinlein)
It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. View quote
Steve Jobs
I don't design clothes, I design dreams. View quote
Ralph Lauren
Luck is the residue of design. View quote
Branch Rickey
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. View quote
John Adams
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering. View quote
Freeman Dyson
Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Design isn't just how it looks. It's how it works. View quote
Steve Jobs
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. View quote
Douglas Adams
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference. (Richard Dawkins)
But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs. View quote
Niklaus Wirth
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. View quote
Niklaus Wirth
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost. View quote
Bjarne Stroustrup
I do two things: I design mobile computers and I study brains. View quote
Jeff Hawkins
The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect. View quote
Carson McCullers
Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem a miracle of purpose. View quote
Michael Pollan
For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation. View quote
Kim Campbell
Very often design is the most immediate way of defining what products become in people's minds. View quote
Jonathan Ive
Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design. View quote
Herbert Simon
The proper study of mankind is the science of design. (Herbert Simon)
Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design. View quote
Adam Ferguson
I was very interested in theatre-mostly in stage design but I did a little bit of acting. View quote
Jim Henson
I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is. View quote
B. F. Skinner
I believe that architects should design gardens to be used, as much as the houses they build, to develop a sense of beauty and the taste and inclination toward the fine arts and other spiritual values. View quote
Luis Barragán