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Design Quotes
"Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose."
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"I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself."
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"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."
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"It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed."
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"The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair."
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"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."
"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."
"People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people."
"Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it."
"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."
"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."
"For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind."
"I'm opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I don't waver."
"Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service."
"A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I studied literature design and fashion design."
"Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes."
"I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting."
"Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design."
"So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me."
"Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The new strategy is to teach intelligent design without calling it intelligent 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."
"To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master."
"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."
"It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it."
"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."
"And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins."
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