Quotes About Design

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.

I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.

Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?

Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail.

History, then, is perceived as a rational process, the unfolding of a design, something with a dynamic to be uncovered.

Automation does not simply supplant human activity but rather changes it, often in ways unintended and unanticipated by the designers. —Automation experts Raja Parasuraman and Dietrich Manzey, 2010

All the technology in the world is not going to help you if it's not intuitive and if the end user can't use it.

Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature.

It was colorful and elaborate—Kayla's website, not the puke

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

Architecture led to the vanishing point which led to architecture.

Design is action at a distance.

architecture begins and ends in pictures…

Do you see how we're drinking out of lovely, uniquely decorated china cups? Mine is different from yours, but they're both fine china. We're not drinking our tea out of Styrofoam or throwaway paper cups. It's like that with you. You're not a Styrofoam or throwaway paper girl. God made you to be a lovely, uniquely designed, fine china cup. That's how He sees you, and that's how I see you.

Custom curtains made with a lovely Schumacher fabric that she'd used for the headboard.

On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS

Do you remember," Ivan sighed, "that time in the back garden at Vorkosigan House, when you'd been reading all those military histories about the Cetagandan prison camps during the invasion, and you decided we had to dig an escape tunnel? Except it was you who did all the designing, and me and Elena who did all the digging?

Symmetry is only a property of dead things.

A man marries by accident, a woman by design.

How the flowers were fired and colored into the design. Perhaps this sort of gesture will be lost, perhaps it is a function of consciousness that we don't need in order to survive. Perhaps this piece of evolution makes no sense—our hunger for everyday sorts of visual pleasure—but I don't think so. I think we have survived because we love beauty and because we find each other beautiful. I think it may be our strongest quality.

If I die, don't take this too hard, she counseled them, death is only part of things bigger than we can imagine. Our brains are just starting the greatness, to learn how to do things like flying. What next? You will see, and you will see that your mother is of the design. And I will always be made of things, and things will always be made of me. Nothing can get rid of me because I am already included into the pattern.

The Lord will provide." Rockefeller tended to see a heavenly design in all things and was convinced that the Almighty had buried the oil in the earth for a purpose.

All the estate houses were the same design. Two up and two down. Originally. Little kitchens and bathrooms were added on after the war.

arranged, and cut and