“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.”
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“It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.”
“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.”
“I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing.”
“I've always loved interior design.”
“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.”
“Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.”
“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.”
“I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.”
“After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either.”
“Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.”
“When the Grateful Dead needed a quality sound system to deliver our sonic payload, I learned electronics and speaker design.”
“IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.”
“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.”
“Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.”
“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.”