“What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together.”
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“Design is people.”
“A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.”
“I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.”
“Design is an unknown.”
“Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.”
“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.”
“To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.”
“Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.”
“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
“In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.”
“I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.”
“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.”
“Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.”
“As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.”
“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.”
“Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture.”
“An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.”
“Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.”
“We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.”
“I really see myself continuing to design clothes, fragrances.”
“How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?”
“Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.”
“I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.”