Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

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. 23 views from Walt Disney

I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body. 5 sayings from Gianni Versace

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors. 46 other quotes from George Santayana

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows. 12 other quotes from Frank Zappa

Luck is the residue of design. 2 other quotes from Branch Rickey

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden. 13 more views from Stephen Gardiner

Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design. 13 other views from Stephen Gardiner

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. 3 sayings from Louis Kahn

Good design is good business. 6 wisdom & wit from Thomas J. Watson

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people. 6 quotes from Thomas J. Watson

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy. 33 quotes from Erma Bombeck

The primary factor is proportions. 4 quotes from Arne Jacobsen

Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society? 3 quotes from Robert Shea

The artist in me cries out for design. 50 views from Robert Frost

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. 7 more thoughts from B. F. Skinner

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker. 16 other sayings from David Hume

I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world. 4 views from David Brainerd

I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it. 22 more quotes from James Dyson

I don't design down to a price. 22 quotes from James Dyson

Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it. 22 more quotes from James Dyson

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products. 22 thoughts from James Dyson

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design. 5 wisdom & wit from Charles Eames

The details are not the details. They make the design. 5 quotes from Charles Eames

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose. 5 quotes from Charles Eames

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. 17 other sayings from Antoine de Saint-Exupery

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route. 5 more sayings from Charles Eames

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. 117 more quotes from Henry David Thoreau

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power. 2 other quotes from Orville Wright

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance. 63 views from Samuel Johnson

Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. 21 sayings from Miguel de Cervantes

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting. 4 more views from Jim Henson

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life. 2 sayings from Charlie Byrd

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it. 2 wisdom & wit from Pierre Bonnard

God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him. 7 quotes from Mary Astell

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband? 7 quotes from Mary Astell