“So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.”
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“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.”
“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.”
“How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.”
“It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.'”
“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.”
“And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.”
“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.”
“Unfortunately, the client that exists today is still pretty much the prototype design.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The point is that I don't design stuff for myself. I'm a toolmaker. I design things that other people want to use.”
“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.”