Quotes About Design

The parity principles show how our tools, especially well-designed tools, can profoundly enhance our capabilities to understand. If we define the mind as the brain, we must also admit to its limitations. There is much we cannot remember or learn or analyze or make sense of, until we extend the mind outward. This is why we make tools and technologies, not for their own sake, but to overcome the inherent limitations of our innate cognitive capabilities. This is the work of design.

I think that when we die we return to dust. But there's a sense in which we live on, in our influence, and in our genes that we pass on to our children. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that I am extremely grateful.

Our universe and its laws appear to have a design that both is tailor-made to support us and, if we are to exist, leaves little room for alteration. That is not easily explained, and raises the natural question of why it is that way.

Many people through the ages have attributed to God the beauty and complexity of nature that in their time seemed to have no scientific explanation. But just as Darwin and Wallace explained how the apparently miraculous design of living forms could appear without intervention by a supreme being, the multiverse concept can explain the fine-tuning of physical law without the need for a benevolent creator who made the universe for our benefit.

The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing the need for a grand designer and revealing how the universe created itself.

We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that I am extremely grateful.

Unless we have a totalitarian world order, someone will design improved humans somewhere.

The fossils were sublime, but I found as much fascination in the odd paraphernalia of culture that, for various reasons, end up in museum drawers. Late eighteenth century apothecary boxes, thread cases from the mills of Lawrence, Victorian cigar boxes of gaudy Cuban design - all the better to house fossils.

Nothing in nature is that even; man is the inventor of straight edges.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

I love the big scale and immediate impact of posters. They're my favourite things to design.

I want industrial design to be a public subject. I want people to love objects the way they love clothing.

If you love it, you don't know much about typography. And if you hate it, you really don't know much about typography either and you should get another hobby.

3 requirements for a good designer: 1. genuine knowledge and love of great design. 2. sound knowledge of principles and techniques of communication. 3. heart (passion).

I love little Peter Pan collars and little puff sleeves.

My primary phone is the iPhone. I love the beauty of it. But I wish it did all the things my Android does, I really do.

I like engineering, but I love the creative input.

I definitely think that fashion is a form of art and love that people can express themselves through what they wear.

I copy the dress of an animal because I love to copy God. I think God is the most fantastic designer.

And, yes, I love the process of building.

Nothing's random. Even if it looks that way, it's just because you don't know the causes.

No single man keeps color-coordinated scatter cushions on his bed." "Neil

proved that technical problems can have artistic solutions

Before you build a masterpiece you must design it. It's the same way with life, you know. Too many people go through life living by chance, but when you live by design and know the life you want to create, you are able to create a masterpiece instead of a piece of junk.