Quotes About Design

I want to be a woman of focus. I don't want to live by default, but by design.

This place," Sophie said, looking around at the ranch-house kitchen the next morning, "needs a woman's touch. Or maybe a crack decorating crew from HGTV or DIY.

Don't ever make the mistake [of thinking] that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback cycle. That's giving your intelligence much too much credit.

Given the girls' aptitudes in computer programming and design, this little enterprise could've gone on and on, growing in scope and size. From a fake university for student visas to a fake corporation for work visas, such as Charlie described. That revenue potential would be through the roof. Definitely worth the risk of holding two girls captive.

It would be very interesting to design objects for everyday life, something where the ideas that are expressed can be launched into society.

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.

Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as well as a pervasive need in society.

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

A house is not a machine to live in. It is the shell of man, his extension, his release, his spiritual emanation.

I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.

All architecture, which does not express serenity, fails in its spiritual mission. Thus, it has been a mistake to abandon the shelter of walls for the inclemency of large areas of glass.

Remember the order of life. Sometimes we forget how it was intended to be.

We are spiritual beings whether we want to admit it or not, and inherent in our DNA is a design to return us home - home to our true essence, our greatest self, our limitless self.

When I am judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.

Anger can be likened to an architect's blueprint. The availability of a blueprint does not cause a building to be constructed, but it does make construction easier.

A world of houses where Californian, the Gothic or Moorish, dwarf Parthenons, Greek temples with lights and venetian blinds mixed with Renaissance villas.

Ava's living area is made up of three primary spaces.

Constructing efficient and beautiful infrastructure is part of building efficient and beautiful markets.

We create the kind of markets we want. If we build elegant infrastructure, we have elegant markets.

Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.

It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format.

Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.

User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project.