I wanted to design a chair which looked like a shrub pruned to look like a chair.

Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them.

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

We should not try to design a better world. We should make better feedback loops.

Taking delight in the journey takes confidence. It pushes the envelope of design.

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

Design is more than just a few tricks to the eye. It's a few tricks to the brain.

It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.

If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design.

The soul is often in the surface, and the importance of 'depth' is overestimated.

Whatever the trend might be, I'm thinking of the Woman for whom I'm designing it.

Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.

There is nothing more trite than a period room imposed on a contemporary setting.

In designing a lifestyle brand, you have to know more than just designing clothes.

Design your financial future in every respect, and then make a plan to achieve it.

Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.

I am very happy to design haute couture. It's a love story between couture and me.

If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.

The world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design.

While doing my architecture from the Parsons School of Design, I also did theatre.

That strange new zone between medium and message. That zone we call the interface.

Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.

Something must have form to be seen but must make sense to be understood and used.

I'm Irish but I design something that is quintessentially English and I love hats.

I want to do everything. I want to do commercials, endorsements. I want to design.

More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.

The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation.

Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code.

To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!

How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?

There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.

Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.

Graphic Design is the communication of information in an appropriate visual manner.

Cisco has not and does not design products for the purpose of political censorship.

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

If we had no bias, if we had no preconceptions, what kind of forms could we design?

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

Throughout the country, I see the same design problems and solutions over and over.

Excellence is greater than an achievement; excellence is standard in all my designs

When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.

Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.

Design is all about learning from doing, that’s how we evolve to the best solution.

I broke pretty much every rule of classic game design and tried to invent new ones.

There is no limit to beauty, no saturation point in design, no end to the material.

Some people design buildings and aircraft carriers and cars - and I designed picks.

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

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