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Design Quotes

"The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually."

Kenneth Miller, American Scientist

Design, Argument, Arguments

"Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Design, Performance

"Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated."

Paul Rand, American Designer

Design, Art, Aesthetics, Content

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

Gianni Versace, Italian Designer

"Design is everything. Everything!"

Paul Rand, American Designer

"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."

Umberto Guidoni, Italian Astronaut

Design, Government, Agreement, End

"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."

Carson McCullers, American Novelist

Design, Colors, Intellect, Mind

"Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?"

Robert Shea, American Author

Design, Society, May

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

George Edmund Street, English Architect

Design, Execution

"It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books."

Steve Wozniak, American Businessman

Design, Books, Computer, Open

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

Guido van Rossum, Dutch Scientist

Design, Language

"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."

David Milne, British Politician

Design, Strategy, Being, England

"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."

K. Eric Drexler, American Scientist

Design, Fact, Learning, Machines

"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."

Genevieve Gorder, American Designer

"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."

Mary Astell, English Writer

Design, Government, Truth, Lie

"Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design."

Kevin Kelly, American Editor

"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."

Robert Shea, American Author

Design, Animals, Competition, Principles

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

Terence, Roman Writer

"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."

Kenneth Miller, American Scientist

Design, Science, Argument, Evolution

"I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design."

Stephen Sprouse, American Designer

"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."

Malcolm Fraser, Australian Politician

Design, Government, Creation, Years

"Work is designed to be in your own field of calling."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Design, Work, Calling, Purpose

"Design is people."

Jane Jacobs, American Sociologist

"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."

Tadao Ando, Japanese Architect

Design, Experience, People, Body

"So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward."

Genevieve Gorder, American Designer

Design, People, Joy, Reward

"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."

Ginny B. Waite, American Author

Design, Circumstances, Clouds, Fate

"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."

Marilyn French, American Author

Design, Time, Children, Weapons

"Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology."

David Bromstad, American Designer

Design, Technology

"Luck is the residue of design."

Branch Rickey, American Athlete

"Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition."

Freeman Thomas, American Designer

Design, Honesty, Collaboration, Intuition

"I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response."

Liz Phair, American Musician

"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."

David Brainerd, American Clergyman

Design, God, Work, World

"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."

Yukihiro Matsumoto, Japanese Scientist

Design, Philosophy, Saying

"To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past."

Charles J. Givens, American Businessman

Design, First, Future, Past

"The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living."

Harry Bertoia, Italian Sculptor

"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."

Genevieve Gorder, American Designer

Design, Money, Power, People

"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."

William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet

Design, Wisdom, Thought, Action

"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."

Anthony Holden, British Journalist

Design, Competition, Practice, Public

"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."

Jay Roach, American Director

Design, Film, Sense, Style

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

Ivan Chermayeff, British Designer

Design, Problems, Solution

"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."

Richard Dawkins, English Scientist

Design, Purpose, Blind, Evil

"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."

Edward Tufte, American Educator

Design, Deep, Order

"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."

Larry Wall, Canadian Author

Design, Power, Development, Community

"Longhorns are unique - each and every one of them is a different color with a different design."

Janine Turner, American Actress

"I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality."

Marc Newson, Australian Designer

Design, Personality

"It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this."

Michael Graves, American Architect

Design, Goal, Career

"Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications."

Drew Endy, American Scientist

Design, Engineering, Understanding, Want

"They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese."

Christian Lacroix, French Designer

"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."

Freeman Dyson, American Physicist

Design, Ideas, Engineering

"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."

Christian Siriano, American Designer

Design, Family, Sister, Dance

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