Design Quotes

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

The details are not the details. They make the design.

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.

The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.

I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.

I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate.

For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.

I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots.

In its report, the Cox Committee concludes that China is using stolen U.S. design information to speed up its deployment of a new nuclear missile force.

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

I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look.

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 common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.