Quotes About Design

However, belief is not the same thing as knowledge, and by deliberately avoiding comprehension of that which we refuse to understand, we confine ourselves to a darkness of our own design.

Though unity is the basic fabric of creation, duality brings texture, design, and color to life.

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Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view.

Let no act be done without a purpose, nor otherwise than according to the perfect principles of art.

Things gravitate toward what they were intended for.

Whatsoever is, was made for something: as a horse, a vine. Why wonderest thou? The sun itself will say of itself, I was made for something; and so hath every god its proper function. What then were thou made for? to disport and delight thyself? See how even common sense and reason cannot brook it.

The objects I chose were designed to hold something, but I didn't fill them up. They remained empty. They were little symbolic shrines to thirst.

It was the thumbprints of human imperfection that used to move him, the flaws in the design: the lopsided smile, the wart next to the navel, the mole, the bruise. Was it consolation he'd had in mind, kissing the wound to make it better?

Yet each flower, each twig, each pebble, shines as though illuminated from within, as once before, on her first day in the Garden. It's the stress, it's the adrenalin, it's a chemical effect: she knows this well enough. But why is it built in? she thinks. Why are we designed to see the world as supremely beautiful just as we're about to be snuffed? Do rabbits feel the same as the fox teeth bite down on their necks? Is it mercy?

Design is more important than technology in most consumer applications.

Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.

The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.

Technology is a vocabulary and a language in which you can say many things.

Technology may change rapidly, but people change slowly. The principals [of design] come from understanding of people. They remain true forever.

A sustainable human community is designed in such a manner that its ways of life, technologies, and social institutions honor, support, and cooperate with nature's inherent ability to sustain life.

Good design successfully manages the tensions between user needs, technology feasibility, and business viability.

Indeed, our designs become more ambitious as we see the new possibilities created by the technology of other industries.

You've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can't start with the technology and try to figure out where you're going to sell it.

If you can design the physical space, the social space, and the information space together to enhance collaborative learning, then that whole milieu turns into a learning technology.

I'm fascinated with materials, with processes, with technologies.

I'd say we [Apple Inc.] are the most creative of the technology companies and definitely the most artist-friendly. Almost everyone in the music business uses a Mac and everyone has an iPod.

Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.

In the marketplace, design is your greatest differentiator once everything becomes comparable in terms of technology and quality.