Quotes About Design

You have to design your life like it's a fresh America. An unseen brave new world sits before you. Every. Single. Day. What are you going to do about it?

Structure is an art. In some ways, it's the only art.

Form follows function in the created world, so far as I know, and the creature that functions, however bizarre, survives to perpetuate its form.

The whole system is designed for uniformity and ease—under worst-case-scenario circumstances

I believe that the human animal evolved as it did—with eyes in the front of its head, long legs, fingernails, eyeteeth—so that it could better chase down slower, stupider creatures, kill them, and eat them; that we are designed to find and eat meat—and only became better as a species when we learned to cook it.

That's why asset allocation is so important. What do all the smartest people in the world say? "I'm going to be wrong." So they design their asset allocation ideally to make money in the long term even if they're wrong in the short term.

She well knew the great architectural secret of decorating her constructions, and never descended to construct a decoration.

Most of us know when we enter a drawing-room whether it is a pretty room or no; but how few of us know how to make a drawing-room pretty! There has come up in London in these latter days a form of room so monstrously ugly that I will venture to say that no other people on earth but Londoners would put up with it. Londoners, as a rule, take their houses as they can get them, looking only to situation, size, and price.

I must think of something foolproof for a fool.

Nature does nothing uselessly.

For nothing is moved at haphazard, but in every case there must be some reason present [1071b]

Hippodamus, the son of Euruphon a Milesian, contrived the art of laying out towns, and separated the Pireus. This man was in other respects too eager after notice, and seemed to many to live in a very affected manner, with his flowing locks and his expensive ornaments, and a coarse warm vest which he wore, not only in the winter, but also in the hot weather.

Mobiles Mobiles are among the most popular furnishings in almost any baby's room. And this is the perfect time to put some up: one over the bed and perhaps another, smaller one over the changing table.

They had forgotten much, but they did not know it. They were as perfectly fitted to their environment as it was to them—for both had been designed together. What was beyond the walls of the city was no concern of theirs; it was something that had been shut out of their minds. Diaspar was all that existed, all that they needed, all that they could imagine. It mattered nothing to them that Man had once possessed the stars.

We wanted you to have a feel for the size of your habitat, in case you needed that to be more comfortable with the design process.

lounge-cum-dining-room

They made houses so oddly back when Hill House was built, she thought; they put towers and turrets and buttresses and wooden lace on them, even sometimes Gothic spires and gargoyles; nothing was ever left undecorated.

But the truth is that while they may be more dramatic, ours are no less supernatural, for the same Lord sovereignly designed the events that also led us to faith. It was he who placed us in a Christian family, or brought us into contact with a Christian, or stirred up in us an unaccountable desire to read

The designer's job is to imagine the world not how it is, but how it should be.

My philosophy is best summed up by the phrase 'plain, simple, and useful.' Such things may not win many design prizes, but neither do they go out of fashion.

A flawless cup: how delicate and fine The flowing curve of every jewelled line! Look, turn it up or down, 'tis perfect still-- But holds no drop of life's heart-warming wine.

For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.

Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.

Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.