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"Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response."
"I love the idea of couture and its emphasis on creation. There's where I made my name - in design - and there's where I'd like to stay."
"I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that."
"We want people to realize you are at a design school, not a land grant college. The way we look says a great deal about who we are."
"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."
"The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process."
"I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy that is, with engineering roofs, etc."
"Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be."
"By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that."
"Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions."
"Whenever I design any variant, or when anybody sends me one, I always say if at all possible within the context of the game don't have two home supply centers touching each other."
"Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work."
"I try to look at design from a more conceptual standpoint."
"Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology."
"'Design Star' was incredible, and I didn't think it could get any better, and then 'Color Splash' happened."
"I decided to go to school for advertising and graphic design. That was what I was gonna do but acting is that thing, it's like a splinter in your mind and you can't get rid of it. So I decided to move to L.A. a few years ago and it just snowballed into this thing called 'The Hunger Games.'"
"I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray."
"It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution."
"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."
"The new strategy is to teach intelligent design without calling it intelligent design."
"The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution, '... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question."
"The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually."
"Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over."
"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."
"It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out."
"When you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first!"
"Design can change how you look at yourself."
"Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to."
"The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants."
"Intelligent design itself does not have any content."
"That's something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my professor emphasized the responsibility that designers and illustrators have towards the people they create things for."
"If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively, then the design strategy is flawed."
"I've come up through art school, through painting, through graphic design, through advertising, through TV commercials and music video. I've designed books, built billboards, matchbooks, corporate identities. I continuously paint, I've done conceptual art pictures."
"Once the product's task is known, design the interface first then implement to the interface design."
"The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution."
"The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it."
"My strengths as a businessman lie in the design and sale of women's shoes, and I have never been comfortable with complicated or technical legal or business documents."
"I could design an $800 shoe line it's easy. You use the best materials and you can make beautiful shoes. It's easier than making great shoes for $90."
"So much of design is context."
"I have lived with my husband more than I have with my parents... I live beside him, and know his worries, his hopes, and his dreams for his nation. We believe that things happen by design, not in an arbitrary way. And we believe it is our duty to make things happen."
"The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times."
"Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'"
"If we don't have accurate information, if we are not able to tell difficult truth one to another, we will never be able to effectively design a policy for Iraq."
"You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life."
"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."
"If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls."
"I wear a lot of different hats - from writer to producer and artist. We all do 5 or 6 jobs, everything from creating our own graphic design to actually recording and the whole bit."
"My background is in hardware design. I found hardware work to be a welcome change from thousands of hours of programming and that led to the designs you mentioned."
"Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair."
"Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven."
"Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actually."
"I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design."
"I brought a lot of my own pieces of clothes to the design room when I first met with the design team just so they could see what my style was like."
"There were IBM logos designed for the film, and there were IBM design consultants working with Kubrick on the layout of the controls and computer screens."
"My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures."
"IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film."
"When the Grateful Dead needed a quality sound system to deliver our sonic payload, I learned electronics and speaker design."
"Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art."
"After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either."
"I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design."
"The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England."
"Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art."
"Once you come up with a premise, you have to work out how it all happened. It's a bit like coming up with a spectacular roof design first. Before you can get it up there, you need to build a solid foundation and supporting structure."
"I've always loved interior design."
"I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing."
"But my point is that you design something in the end that precludes any unhealthy trading practices that are not going to serve your environmental or your economic objectives but now is not the time to do it."
"It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake."
"I don't design cars. I'm not a designer. I know what I desire to be built, I know what the end result is, the horsepower, the competition we'll be working against - but I leave it to the people who work with me to put it all together. I don't do anything."
"In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not."
"Dubstep has everything for me. Rhythm, sound design, heartfelt emotion - all in one place."
"We opened a design center in the South of England last year as part of our strategy for being close to our customers and developing innovative products for exciting new markets."
"The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves."
"I love graphic design. I love working with design, and I love storytelling, so I've been working on a children's book for a while, and I'd like to see that through."
"Well, yes, I mean, I think that, you know, my sources suggest that there's a lot of support for the notion that there is a lot of Koran abuse and that it was very much a systematic design, not just an aberration."
"I'm really not for famous people who design a line for a company, when you know it's not really them creating it but a team of designers, especially when there are so many talented people who've taken the time to go and study fashion."
"Golf course design is exciting."
"By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size."
"Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful."
"You have to design and program differently. Combat action in an MMO is so different to combat in a first-person shooter."
"It is very important to lead the field and innovate in game design."
"In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry."
"Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them."
"I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes. I think I'd throw myself into whatever I'm doing now. It's not about abandoning what I was doing before, or giving up. It's about knowing that if I die tomorrow, I lived the way I wanted to."
"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 don't set goals. Like, that's what I want to be doing however many years from now. I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes."
"It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it."
"Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications."
"I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary."
"I design some of my own clothes now."
"Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill."
"There is not necessarily a good reason why a regulator should have to be involved in product design and marketing for rich and sophisticated investors. We recommend that such investors should be able to sign a piece of paper, which allows them to go ahead and buy unregulated products at their own risk."
"It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus in on the band, but instead focused in on a theme."
"We used to be referred to as bakers and then we became known as cake decorators and now we are known as cake designers. I teach at the French Culinary Institute in New York and cake design is a legitimate profession."
"Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. It's like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level."
"The point is that I don't design stuff for myself. I'm a toolmaker. I design things that other people want to use."
"My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians."
"English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market."
"Unfortunately, the client that exists today is still pretty much the prototype design."
"So much of it is the design of the shot or the motion of the character it's the work you do so that it has the same things that are in the movie. In just a few frames it's got to communicate something clearly and dramatically."
"And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins."
"There is a group of individuals who are radical jihadists. We need to call them by name. They believe it is OK to kill people in the name of their religion. It is not all of Islam. It is not all Muslims. But there is a subgroup who believe it is OK. In fact, it is their plan and design to kill people."
"Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently - the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs 'good tricks.'"
"If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the jeans, the design of belts and boots, the haircut, the number and size of earrings."
"I have had this view of the optimization of the electrode design for a long time. Historically we went through various phases in the work and eventually worked on large sheets - very large sheets - of palladium."
"So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan."
"Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or communications we are witnessing unprecedented global transformation - the result of which is impossible to predict."
"I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things."
"Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do."
"It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe."
"I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration."
"Initially, it was the unpractical in fashion that brought me to design my own line. I felt that it was much more attractive to cut clothes with respect for the living, three-dimensional body rather than to cover the body with decorative ideas."
"We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design."
"I used to design for my body, which was flat-chested with big hips. That's why my clothes were tight on top with full skirts."
"I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my design only fits within an 'ism' kind of bothers me."
"How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?"
"For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design."
"When I started this project, I was a young architect. I was very apprehensive about any changes to the design. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned that you can accept some changes to its form without compromising its intent. But it's a leap of faith that I didn't want to make initially - to put it mildly."
"So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed."
"It was something I was more interested in myself. When I went to see my sister dance at ballet, I was really into costumes and the arts, and my family was also supportive of whatever me and my sister wanted to do. I would say I pushed myself the most to be into design."
"If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there, the formula kicks in. Each room should have something unique and different about it - much the same way that in a song, every eight bars or so, a new piece of information should be introduced."
"Perhaps I'd like to design cars, but I don't think I'd be much good at it."
"I discovered at an early age that all I've ever wanted to do is design."
"There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space."
"I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look."
"Longhorns are unique - each and every one of them is a different color with a different design."
"I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May '43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in '42 - even in my position. This aircraft didn't have any priority in design or production."
"I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks."
"Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design."
"It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this."
"At our company, our Design and Construction Consulting Service Team not only helps eliminate the risks inherent in the construction process, they typically save our clients 5% - 10% on overall construction costs. They also help make sure projects come in on time."
"The Final Jeopardy! questions seem to be, by design, things you can't know. And so it's not about who knows them, but who can figure them out in thirty seconds."
"Being in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS."
"I gave the couple a hint of a design that would work great with the bones of their home. They weren't ready for it, and they embarrassed themselves and that's too bad."
"Throughout the country, I see the same design problems and solutions over and over."
"I look at each episode in two ways - from a design standpoint and from an entertainment standpoint - this is TV, after all. We usually succeed on at least one of the levels."
"In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project."
"Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design."
"When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential."
"The demise of Google Reader, if logical, is a reminder of how far we've come from the cuddly old 'I'm Feeling Lucky' Google days, in which there was a foreseeably-astonishing delight in the way Google's evolving design tricks anticipated what users would like."
"I've generally got a good eye for design and proportion."
"Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known."
"My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it in such a way that it will cut together. And how to design the style and tone."
"I do love DVD and I've always taken them seriously. You know, on the Austin things, we really put a ton of work into them because there's so much design involved. And in this one, we thought a lot about it and what could go in."
"That's a hobby of mine - to do whatever I can for unusual for-hire creative projects. I am waiting for someone to really challenge me - obviously I'm often approached to do film related work, but I would be very happy to design a bar or an amusement park ride. I would love to be an imagineer!"
"The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995."
"In its report, the Cox Committee concludes that China is using stolen U.S. design information to speed up its deployment of a new nuclear missile force."
"Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families. However, they refused to include any of those who were removed in the design of their own memorial."
"I think gardens are fantastic, and I'd love to draw and design and stuff like that. I love just planting flowers during the summer. There's something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful."
"I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive."
"I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific."
"Even as a young boy, my passion was to design, and I have been very lucky to be able to do what I have loved all my life. There can be few greater gifts than that."
"Traditional horizontal search engines cannot always identify the target audience, niche or vertical industry of a page or site. Vertical search engines address this issue by the nature of their design. They identify sites according to more specific criteria and sometimes even by human input."
"You can design a mortgage system that is different without a Fannie and Freddie, but there are principles you have to have, to have a good system."
"For me, if I can design beautiful things that have the price be lower, I am thrilled."
"And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole."
"To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons."
"Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?"
"Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail."
"Through the harsh design of fate, Florida was dealt the unfortunate circumstances of bearing the brunt of not one but two hurricanes, and it appears more dark clouds are poised to visit the Sunshine State."
"I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself."
"I like to think that the Internet and file sharing, if utilized properly and embraced, and I emphasize properly, is a high-powered marketing design."
"I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasn't available in the U.K., so I turned to music."
"One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular."
"I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really convinced me of how powerful a thing design is. It's not just an aesthetic decoration."
"It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people."
"We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box."
"Stargate by far is the top of the pile when it comes to Sci-Fi. The quality is great. They have really good writers, production design, lighting, wardrobe."
"The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design."
"I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing."
"Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone."
"User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project."
"It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format."
"Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books."
"Internet safety begins at home and that is why my legislation would require the Federal Trade Commission to design and publish a unique website to serve as a clearinghouse and resource for parents, teachers and children for information on the dangers of surfing the Internet."
"We must carefully consider card security solutions, such as adding photographs or machine-readable electronic strips, so to prevent further breaches of individual privacy that could result from changes to the design of Social Security Cards."
"While I was at college studying design I decided to paint. I was also greatly inspired by the colours that I had seen on my travels in the Brazilian Rain forest."
"I am extremely excited to develop and design a brand representative of my life, experiences and style. Working closely with Cherokee will help establish a worldwide presence with best-in-class retailers and category leaders."
"The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all."
"After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them."
"If you were the first person ever to design an application for the iPhone and you patented it, you would be very, very better off than we are right now, you know? But you've got to be the first one to do it. So I figured that Led Zeppelin or the Stones were going to do it unless we just got on to it. So I got cracking with the guys from Apple."
"Websites are kind of useless. There's so much great web content and design out there, but the ways in which they are being experienced are not being maximized."
"I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side."
"So if I want to buy a light in a shop and I don't find a light that I like, I think to myself what would I like? What would I like to buy? Then I started to imagine and design it for myself a lot of the time."
"So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me."
"Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting."
"Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started."
"There are two kinds of designers: ones who are very happy locked in their office surrounded by their coterie. The last thing they need to do is to go to a trunk show they'd go running for the hills. I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it?"
"I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design."
"I have been wildly enthused about gaming since I was younger, and a career path I chose not to go down but did really consider was getting into programming and game design."
"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."
"But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs."
"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."
"In regards to being a fashion aficionado, there's a certain amount of taking yourself seriously in the professional world. The self-effacing person can't completely go down the serious road. But I design, and love when things are beautiful."
"I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world."
"I have never seen a game's graphics look so sharp and clean. The sound design for the game is also unique on the Xbox. The memory on this system allowed us to provide the user with 5.1 Dolby surround sound for home theatre owners."
"I had a faux-hawk for a while and I used to buzz the sides and design it. It was really bad."
"When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher."
"Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways."
"With fashion, you really need to understand the aspects of construction. Not just design on an iPad."
"I've never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don't like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century."
"I design for myself and the first question I ask is, 'Would I wear it?'"
"After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America."
"User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process."
"The industry's changed so much that you can't just design something, put on a great show, and say, 'Okay, my job is done.'"
"The gays like 'Project Runway' because it's a fashion, and the gays are into fashion and into design. It's a creative industry, and most of the gays are pretty creative, in general. That's just like the culture. We're not all into politics necessarily. We're more into the creative environment. I also think Heidi is a big draw. The boys love Heidi and think she's so fabulous. I just think it's a glitzy, fun show, and there are also always lots of gay boys on it, and, you know, that's fun."
"You can get a lot of design testing of your missile program, and you can do a lot of - there's other ways other than physically to develop your weaponization program to get you very close to the real deal."
"Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing."
"The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years."
"For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme."
"French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism."
"They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese."
"I won't give up my day job of design."
"Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live."
"I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it."
"I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there."
"I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots."
"It's funny now how much we look at - whatever you want to call it: art, design, culture stuff, film - online, and how in the online world, you're instantly global."
"I am always locked in my design studio."
"If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny."
"It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books."
"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."
"Design my own line? No, I just like the culture."
"Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods."
"Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable."
"The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden."
"Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design."
"Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far."
"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."
"We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work and accordingly labour faithfully for him not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can."
"I majored in fashion design in school, and I have always wanted to design my own line of clothing, jewelry, and stuff like that so this was just a step for me in that direction."
"I studied literature design and fashion design."
"I've never had anyone define purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live according to original design."
"God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him."
"If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk."
"Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product it's an understanding of human nature."
"In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power."
"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."
"To be able to design for the plus-sized consumer, for me, that's just beyond. It's a dream."
"There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design."
"I'm opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I don't waver."
"The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena."
"The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share."
"I learn my lines while on the golf course. I try to do two or three things at once. I have ideas for books all the time, I have ideas for paintings all the time, and I write them all down. I take my sketchpad and my iPad, which I design on, and I do sit down and do specific tasks at specific times."
"What I've learned from different designers is that it's key to be true to who you are and your vision. That's always been my line of thinking. Working through the whole design process, I don't want to create something I wouldn't be proud to wear."
"I am extremely involved in the design process of both my brands, Winter Kate and House of Harlow 1960."
"When we were in the design studio I always was pretending like I was in a closet asking my friend before I step out into the world what do I look like? And everybody wants that honest friend before they go and go to dinner or go to an event."
"Luckily I don't have to buy shoes anymore, because I design them! I'm off tour, so I can dive in and create the shoes that I want for my line. But okay, I did buy a pair of vintage combat boots because they were so beaten up - I had to have them."
"People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life."
"The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have."
"We worked with the engineers in the design and construction and testing phases in those various areas, then we would get back together at the end of the week and brief each other as to what had gone on."
"Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive you will be able to design a house together with your family a garden for your children places where you can work beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream."
"Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design."
"I am a fashion designer. I'm not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning, number one I'm a mother and a wife, and number two I design clothes. So the main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer."
"Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department."
"I think a lot of times people design restaurants with flash in mind. I think you should design restaurants with function in mind. Make sure it's functional and works with what you're trying to accomplish. Design can come later."
"I've always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be in stage setting or interior design or something. I like clutter and I'm quite visually greedy. I can't have things to be plain I have to have things looking interesting... maybe I'm just a frustrated interior designer stuck in a singing career."
"When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design."
"I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right."
"The details are not the details. They make the design."
"Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose."
"Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products."
"I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it."
"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."
"I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic."
"I don't design down to a price."
"Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it."
"I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design."
"Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature."
"A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes - as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was."
"A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else."
"I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it."
"Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club."
"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."
"When I come to a design decision, people know that is that."
"I approve designs not because I think I am more gifted or somebody who can see ahead three or four years from now, but just to make sure that the design is a logical, rational decision, taken after analyzing pros and cons."
"But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me."
"Marc Jacobs is full of creative people and Louis Vuitton is again a name on the door, a name that has existed for many years but I'm a collaborator there and I bring in other people, other artists and I work with a great creative design team."
"I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response."
"When I design and wonder what the point is, I think of someone having a bad time in their life. Maybe they are sad and they wake up and put on something I have made and it makes them feel just a bit better. So, in that sense, fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But only a little."
"So, I'm always around video games but I've always been interested in them from a visual perspective, with the graphic design and that whole thing. I don't know if that comes from my love of photography or what but that's always what's held my interest about them."
"I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'"
"I'd love to design bridal dresses."
"It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed."
"The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes."
"That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them."
"A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life."
"Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing."
"I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures."
"But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?"
"The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design."
"My style is kind of eclectic and I don't like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you won't see the same design."
"No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them."
"After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared."
"I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it's late."
"Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way."
"I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design."
"While a case can be made for intelligent design, I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all, it doesn't prove there's a God. If anything, intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature."
"Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2, 000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today."
"Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it."
"I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression."
"You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one."
"People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people."
"The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it."
"All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it."
"Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process."
"I help design my own tennis clothes."
"I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf."
"Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as 600 effects shots or CG characters that have to go a certain way, or a film design that is different but expensive."
"I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design."
"I have always had an interest in fashion and design and I appreciate style and timelessness within my footwear and accessories both on and off the court."
"Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality."
"We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world."
"I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting."
"It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion."
"At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve."
"The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them."
"Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women."
"When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great."
"I'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life."
"The only thing Martha and I have in common is that we both used to model. Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live."
"A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker."
"I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design."
"Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition."
"How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?"
"I really see myself continuing to design clothes, fragrances."
"We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams."
"Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors."
"An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service."
"Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture."
"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."
"Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance."
"Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation."
"As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings."
"Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work."
"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."
"The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference."
"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."
"The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows."
"Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself."
"In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled."
"Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy."
"The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it."
"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."
"Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together."
"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."
"Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works."
"A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have."
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much."
"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future it is something you design for the present."
"Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution."
"To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master."
"Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one."
"Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long."
"I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure."
"The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair."
"A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes."
"What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together."
"I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings."
"So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward."
"The proper study of mankind is the science of design."
"In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone."
"Accessible design is good design."
"I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality."
"Good design doesn't date."
"I design for the woman who loves being a woman."
"The primary factor is proportions."
"I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body."
"Design is everything. Everything!"
"A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do."
"When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space."
"To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past."
"This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it."
"To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need."
"About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs."
"Design is not for philosophy it's for life."
"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."
"Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design."
"I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical."
"Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design."
"Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it."
"Luck is the residue of design."
"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."
"Design works if it's authentic, inspired, and has a clear point of view. It can't be a collection of input."
"Sacred spaces can be created in any environment."
"Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before."
"Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones."
"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."
"The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living."
"Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next."
"I don't design clothes, I design dreams."
"I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves."
"Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance."
"Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy."
"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
"The artist in me cries out for design."
"You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality."
"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."