Quotes About Design

I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.

Theory did a great work pant, and everyone was doing denim. But no one was making a trouser sexy, or the focus of an outfit... So, that's what I set out to do.

The evolutionary theory of senescence can be stated as follows: while bodies are not designed to fail, neither are they designed for extended operation.

I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature.

I designed a system to project video on the moon for all of humanity to see. I did this sort of as therapy as I was doing my Ph.D. in device physics.

When I designed 'Flower' I was thinking about making it a positive, almost like a self-healing experience. It's like therapy.

There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.

I have invented the Thermometer style.

There's a reason screens are only this thick.

Easy-to-grip handles are particularly important when a dish is hot and filled to the brim. The last thing you want is to grab skimpy handles with thick oven mitts and have the whole thing come crashing to your kitchen floor.

If you want a product that's thicker with a bigger battery, it's also heavier, more costly, takes longer to charge.

Souls are not designed to float around in thin air.

Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose.

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren't random.

I believe that when things happen, they happen with a purpose.

Actually the hardest films to make are comedies. In normal life, funny things happen by accident; to re-create those by design in a film takes real technique.

I've always loved great upholstery, and think that a great sofa is one of the most important pieces of furniture in your home.

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they expand the horizon of possibilities.

Health care is a design problem. Dependence on foreign oil is a design problem. To some extent, poverty is a design problem. We need design thinkers to solve those problems, and most people who are in positions of political power are not design thinkers, to put it mildly.

My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.