Design Quotes

I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.

Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.

Why kick the man downstream who can't put the parts together because the parts really weren't designed properly?

Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers -- the rich.

In most people''s vocabularies, design means veneer. It''s interior decorating. It''s the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.

To dismiss front-end design as mere 'icing' is to jeopardize the success of any site.

Luck is the residue of design.

When men's intents are wicked, their guilt haunts them, But when they are just they're arm'd, and nothing daunts them.

Honest designs Justly resemble our devotions, Which we must pay and wait for the reward.

When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end.

He that intends well, yet deprives himself Of means to put his good thoughts into deed, Deceives his purpose of the due reward.

Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernize, while adequate and amusing in themselves, tend to make the people who use them look dated. It is an honest criticism. The human race has done nothing much about changing its own appearance to conform to the form and texture of its appurtenances.

Design is not for philosophy -- it's for life.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.