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Quotes About Design

There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few.
~ Victor Papanek
If I paid more attention to my appearance, people might think that the proficiency of design industry isn't too bad in a city with such a chief executive.
~ Carrie Lam
NPR editors and journalists found themselves caught in a game of trying to please a leadership team who did not want to hear stories on the air about conservatives, the poor, or anyone who didn't fit their profitable design of NPR as the official voice of college-educated, white, liberal-leaning, upper-income America.
~ Juan Williams
There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.
~ Moshe Safdie
The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
~ H. Rap Brown
You have to design and program differently. Combat action in an MMO is so different to combat in a first-person shooter.
~ John Romero
Programmers are very creative people. And animators are problem solvers, just as programmers are.
~ Edwin Catmull
Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code.
~ Ellen Ullman
Ninety percent of games lose money; 10 percent make a lot of money. And there's a consistency around the competitive advantages you create, so if you can actually learn how to do the art, the design, and the programming, you would be consistently very profitable.
~ Gabe Newell
My earliest interest in game design came when I was in primary school, and my parents bought a Commodore 128 computer. I taught myself to write programs in BASIC, and then I made my own games.
~ Brendan Myers
We build programs with points in mind.
~ Scott Moir
Progressivism is the cancer in America and it is eating our Constitution, and it was designed to eat the Constitution, to progress past the Constitution.
~ Glenn Beck
Is there a better example of natural selection in action than 'Project Runway?'
~ Jamais Cascio
When I started this project, I was a young architect. I was very apprehensive about any changes to the design. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned that you can accept some changes to its form without compromising its intent. But it's a leap of faith that I didn't want to make initially - to put it mildly.
~ Michael Arad
I'm going to design again, but I come back when it's the right project, so I keep my passion for it intact.
~ Hedi Slimane
In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project.
~ Douglas Wilson
At our company, our Design and Construction Consulting Service Team not only helps eliminate the risks inherent in the construction process, they typically save our clients 5% - 10% on overall construction costs. They also help make sure projects come in on time.
~ Roger Staubach
Per capita, I would say that Australia has more biomimetic projects going than many other countries I've been to.
~ Janine Benyus
I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.
~ Zaha Hadid
Early in my career, I was involved with engineer-led projects, where designers came in late in the game and were expected to put lipstick on an existing code base. This almost never works.
~ Ryan Holmes
I began doing writing projects and art and design projects to explore a new way of seeing Canada. Roots is one more way of continuing this exploration. I want to present a wide-open Canadian sense of color, adventure, communication and openness that defines our country.
~ Douglas Coupland
I don't take on projects that are a hassle or when someone comes in and says, 'We really need this design,' and I'm like, 'OK, fine, I'll do it.' It really has to be something that I personally feel intrigued and excited about - any product, as long as I'm excited by it. It doesn't have to be a car.
~ Henrik Fisker
In high school, I had a singing group, and I designed the outfits and made my friends' prom dresses.
~ Tina Knowles
My background industry is design - I code a lot, too - but there's been this narrative of design in technology becoming more prominent. What the UI enables on Pinterest is this human activity that ends up creating a great database.
~ Evan Sharp