Design - Quotes & Sayings

Give us detailed, testable, mechanistic accounts for the origin of life, the origin of the genetic code, the origin of ubiquitous bio macromolecules and assemblages like the ribosome, and the origin of molecular machines like the bacterial flagellum, and intelligent design will die a quick and painless death.

William A. Dembski

Deep down, creationists realize they will never win factual arguments with science. This is why they have construed their own science-like universe, known as Intelligent Design, and eagerly jump on every tidbit of information that seems to go their way.

Frans de Waal

The exposure I have had to beautiful materials across the world, from Japan to Italy, enables me to pull design ideas together. This, combined with years of historical research, has created a great fountain of ideas for me.

Colleen Atwood

Design can overcome our most deeply rooted stranger-danger bias.

Joe Gebbia

In art school, you learn that design is much more than the look and feel of something - it's the whole experience.

Joe Gebbia

You must have the ability to recognize good design and good user experience. These are core things at Airbnb. It doesn't matter which department you're in.

Joe Gebbia

At Stanford, we teach 'design thinking' - that is, we put together small, interdisciplinary groups to figure out what the true needs are and then to apply the art of engineering to serve them.

Hasso Plattner

The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it.

Larry J. Sabato

I design to make women feel confident and beautiful.

Tadashi Shoji

What we do in the laboratory is we try to design drugs that will not just eradicate cancer cells but will eradicate their homes.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

With Eric Rohmer - as with Mozart, Austen, James, and Proust - we need to remember that art is seldom about life, or not quite about life. Art is about discovery and design and reasoning with chaos.

Andre Aciman

While 'The Endless Summer' poster was designed at the Art Center College of Design in the contemporary style of its time, the image grew out of my relationship with Rick Griffin and our deep relationship to surf images.

John Van Hamersveld

I'm a fashion designer, not a shoe designer. I like to design clothes.

Dries van Noten

There is a design behind the world that we are living in, which is veiled to most of us most of the time, but every once in a while, you catch a glimpse of it.

Mark Frost

I love designing bridal. I do not follow trends - I design dresses that are relevant to the times.

Naeem Khan

When you're 8 years old, and you've become subconsciously familiar with the layout and design of Black Sparrow books, and you know the difference between Miles Davis and John Coltrane, something is bound to stick.

Patrick deWitt

I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning.

Neri Oxman

A great dream of mine would be to run a design studio full of scientists who think about science as creatively as if they were doing art.

Neri Oxman

By fundamentally changing how we design the places and systems that enable our daily lives, we can slash emissions way beyond the immediate carbon savings - because our own personal emissions are just the tip of a vast iceberg of energy and resources consumed far from our view.

Alex Steffen

Graphic design is a hobby that I started with back in 2010-2011, which I am still doing today. And because of that, I was able to design my own stuff and designed my own logo.

Alan Walker

I tell my workshop students, 'I want you to think of yourselves as artists. Then, when you're writing, you're painting, you're crafting, you're making a design, you're sculpting, you're creating choreography, sound, a sound script.'

Juan Felipe Herrera

I love French auto design of the early '50s, '60s, early '70s of Citorens, Renaults, and Peugeots. They're so unique.

John Lasseter

The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.

Leo Fender

Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.

Kevin Kelly

When I take on a design project, I have to jet from the bookstore to the hardware shop to the lamp store and back again just to collect a small portion of the many items I need to fill a home. But, when you hit the flea market, they're all right there. From booth to booth, you have the bases covered.

Nate Berkus

I wanted to design a museum in which everything would seem clear.

Mario Botta

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.

Robert Moog

I've been fascinated with interior design for as long as I can remember.

Matthew Williamson

Your neighbors will be envious of your 3D printer - and if they're not, just print new neighbors. Design them so they'll like to bring you pies, maybe, or want to do your yard work for you.

W. Bruce Cameron

Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global carbon taxes.

Jamais Cascio

I have been fully involved in designing my stage shows; it's important to me to do something really unique and almost off-the-wall to bring the music and the visuals together. I love design and actually went to school for a bit for graphic design, so it isn't so much 'pressure' for me; it's a way to be creative, and I really enjoy it.

Afrojack

Many of the problems that families face can be solved with great technology, design, and distribution.

Christine Tsai

I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing.

Donald Norman

It's very difficult to design something for someone if you have no empathy.

Stewart Butterfield

They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.

Christian Lacroix

For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme.

Christian Lacroix

I don't like the collusion between high fashion design and high street. You have to know where you stand. I belong to luxury fashion. That's what I've always felt and embraced. I like the best quality, the best fabrics and the most creative field in fashion. I will stay consistent. I belong to this world.

Hedi Slimane

When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.

Narciso Rodriguez

One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.

Ralph Bakshi

I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.

Caroline Wozniacki

While a case can be made for intelligent design, I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all, it doesn't prove there's a God. If anything, intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature.

Tony Campolo

I turned my hand to costume design a few years ago when I created the outfits for 'This Is the Sea,' with Richard Harris and Samantha Morton. It's a very different discipline to being a fashion designer, though - you have to rein in your own vision and work to a tight brief.

John Rocha

My homes are similar in style because the same design principles run through all areas of my work.

John Rocha

We have achieved tremendous success in Ireland and internationally on the strength of our creativity and design skills.

John Rocha

When writing for the page, the focus is on the design - how the words appear on the page. I try to make it as direct and simple as possible.

Rupi Kaur

I'm also interested in pets with alopecia. And design. I'm surprised I haven't gone through with a homeware brand. The bedding, the comforters, the candles, the this and that. I would like to design everything.

Lisa Vanderpump

Don't bring on the design engineers too soon. One of the worst things you can do in the early phases of a project is to bring on a bunch of detailed design engineers and then not give them clear direction and close supervision.

Bruce Pittman

So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.

Robert Rauschenberg

The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.

Tadao Ando

I've always loved fashion design. I love drawing and creating looks and styling.

Lily Collins