Quotes About Design

Machines are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different every time you call it up. You want it to stay the same.

A single model enables me to focus on one thing at a time, separating design and form and color into three successive stages.

Any subject is suitable provided it is of sufficient interest, but the design must be very carefully considered, and plenty of time and thought given to its construction.

Our clothing, our food, our household furnishings - all could be much simpler than they now are and at the same time be better looking

You can never design the best city, but you can design the best city you know how to design at this time.

I pay two full-time assistants in my studio, plus consultants who are architects, engineers, and landscape architects, as well as lighting designers.

Designers have to keep the body in mind all the time. Think of the girl's undergarments: the bra is always key.

For some time now, I have been encouraging people to ask themselves why things look the way they do.

I spend far too much time on eBay buying lamps and upholstery remnants.

The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction.

Designers must be both conscious and unconscious at the same time. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle talent.

I think I was the only kid on the block who knew about furniture scale by the time I was 8.

I'm a bit of a design enthusiast, and like spending time with my girlfriend and mates.

Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over time.

I am working right at both the levels- with the most wealthy clients in the world, but also the poorest. I spend half my time designing for people that have nothing.

Any design, any city, any kind of craziness or tragedy, it all comes from a long time of preparation.

Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Making good design is easy. It's polishing the half-assed stuff that takes time.

Raistlin's lip curled in a sneer. How does that thread weave into the grand design? As do all threads, Astinus said. Look at the rug beneath your feet. Were you to turn the rug over, you would see what appears to be a confused tangle of many-colored strands of thread. But look at the rug from the top—the strands are neatly, tightly woven, merged together to form a strong fabric. Oh, it is frayed a bit at the corners, but—overall—it has worn well.

And on God's palette are the colors of the world, and one of those colors is black. So I will not fear the darkness, for it is of God's making as death is another part of his grand design. My soul will walk in the darkness and shadows and marvel at the night sky. Death is but a journey back to the canvas of my God. —Requiem

L'architecture transforme un état de nature, en état de culture.

The teleological argument, or argument from design, attempts to furnish evidence for God's existence from the apparent design of the world.

The houses are ugly, imitations of imitations.

El «cupo escolar» diseñado por él ha dado excelentes resultados en los países que lo han aplicado, como Suecia