In a biological system, the software builds its own hardware, but design is critical, and if you start with digital information, it has to be really accurate.

That's just tragic, that you can spend four years of your life studying the design of three dimensional objects and not make one.

I design all of my costumes. I like to go out there and feel like I have contributed to every part of what I do. I choose the music, the choreographer, I've obviously chosen my coach, my costumes - all if that falls under my realm of power, my realm of influence.

Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club.

I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.

A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.

I love design in general, the creativity. Whether it is golf courses, my apparel line, ads we do or our business with AriZona, design is fun.

If I had one golf course, from a design standpoint, one that I really love, it would probably be Pinehurst. There's a totally tree-lined golf course where trees are not a part of the strategy.

Everything that I design I would wear myself.

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

Design, whether it's on your body or in your home, is the same thing. It's mixing different colors, different textures, and unexpected patterns - elements that you wouldn't often put together in an interesting way.

I like the idea of people who've had some success in one form secretly wanting to be something else; I have some of that myself. I look for it in other people who've established themselves in some particular art form, and then you find out that they really would like to design running shoes, or edit literary magazines or something.

I would like to design what people generally call streetwear. I'd like to dress skateboarders, or whatever the older equivalent of skateboarders are. I pay more attention to that stuff than anyone would ever imagine because I'm watching what the designers do.

Everyone in the astronaut program has a degree in a science field. The crew are the ones who do the experiments, help to design some of the experiments that come from other primary researchers. So it becomes very important that you have a science background.

I'm deeply and passionately involved in the design process. I'm a brash American, and if my name is going to be on something, I'm going to have my say.

To be able to design for the plus-sized consumer, for me, that's just beyond. It's a dream.

My job at the end of the day is to design timeless, desirable, beautiful products. It's not about just designing a bunch of organic jumpers. I have a balance within the brand. If you try to create something people enjoy, and it happens to be made in a responsible way, then that's when you can really strike an incredible balance.

I think the fact that my parents weren't conventional - especially considering their position - had a big influence on the way that I conduct myself now in design and business. It had a huge impact on my wanting to do something a bit more than just designing a pretty dress and putting it on a runway and making it glamorous.

When you're learning, especially to write, unless you're some incredibly gifted writer, a young Malcom Gladwell, say, you need to be imitating people. You need to be imitating how they make their work, how they structure it, how they design the pieces. It gives you chops; it gives you moves.

Any design, whether it's for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.

No design, no matter how common or seemingly insignificant, is without its adamant critics as well as its ardent admirers.

Because every design must satisfy competing objectives, there necessarily has to be compromise among, if not the complete exclusion of, some of those objectives, in order to meet what are considered the more important of them.

For me, I've always believed that there was a God. I've always believed that God created the heavens and earth - so, for me it's not a huge leap from there to intelligent design.

Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.

Western design houses have been exploring China in terms of investment for well over a decade.

I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right.

I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.

I have too much product, and I'm trying to rein it in and sell more of my main collection. I wish you didn't have to design so often; it would be good if you could keep on selling the same things for a few years and not have to do new things all the time.

I wish you didn't have to design so often. Try to do quality and cut down on quantity. I think fashion is very, very important.

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.

I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.

When we changed from Tiger to Nike, we had to have a design for the shoe. And where do you go to? There's no 'dial 9-1-1' for design.

Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits.

It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.

All those lessons that I've learned on the court, I have applied them to my life outside of the court in business, my company, called V Starr interiors, an interior design company, and EleVen, which I wear on court.

My style is kind of eclectic and I don't like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you won't see the same design.

I love design.

I've gone to school for business, for design, for architecture.

It's a very strange thing for a designer to say, but one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I'm aware of designers wagging their tails in my face.

Perhaps I'd like to design cars, but I don't think I'd be much good at it.

I discovered at an early age that all I've ever wanted to do is design.

'Design' is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.

Eight years of work can be copied in six months. It wasn't inevitable that it was going to work. A stolen design is stolen time.

Apple's Industrial Design team is harder to get into than the Illuminati, and part of the reason is because no one leaves. In the last 15 years, not one of the 18 designers has ditched Apple for greener pastures.

I like to work in a small team. There is only 18 of us on the design team. Nobody has ever left.

When something's made in the smallest volume - as a one-off couture piece - or in large quantities, deep care is critical to determine authentic, successful design and, ultimately, manufacture.

We struggle with the right words to describe the design process at Apple. But it is very much about designing and prototyping and making.

My focus is incredibly narrow. I can't talk with any authority other than design and development of product.

I find that when I write, I need things to be quiet, but when I design, I can't bear it if it's quiet.