Quotes About Design

What day is the day that we know that we hope for or fear for? Every day is the day we should hear from or hope from. One moment Weighs like another. Only in retrospection, selection, We say, that was the day. The critical moment That is always now, and here. Even now, in sordid particulars The eternal design may appear.

A curse is like a child, formed To grow to maturity: Accident is design And design is accident In a cloud of unknowing.

There is no such thing as an accident. That's what science is all about. (...) There are only patterns we don't yet recognize.

I believe in God because only an idiot can look at the complex balance of nature and believe that has not been designed. Believe it or not, but some people still believe that a watch can make itself out of sand if you just give it enough time. That's what they call evolution. And you wonder why I am cynical. From my point of view you have to be a fool not to be cynical.

Think of it this way: the object thinkers build the trains, and the spatial visualizers make them run.

The technical qualities of a product matter, but the way the product is experienced is more important.

CHAPTER 13: WORKING WITH STYLE SHEETS

In making for ourselves a place to live, we first spread a parasol to throw a shadow on the earth, and in the pale light of the shadow we put together a house.

A child of the new age of iron, steam, and mechanical wonders, the architect, Isaiah Rogers, virtually invented the modern hotel: a functionally complex and self-contained structure (and social organization) that was a sort of human terrarium. A closed world designed from the ground up for the specific purpose of welcoming, housing, maintaining, and feeding guests in advanced comfort, the hotel was no longer just a stop along the way: it was a destination in itself

Rest assured that if the developers who are tasked with building the system do not understand and value the design, they will butcher it.

Granted, I told Her, that your grand design is undoubtedly something very nasty and bad, eventually, in the long term. But you're immortal and I'm not, so if I stop you now, you'll just wait till I'm dead and start all over again, so really, what's the point in me interfering?

To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.

Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade- all the threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design.

Visiting my mind is like visiting the Hermès factory.

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'

I have been accused of having people design my image, tell me what to say in interviews, design my clothes, the way I look and talk, and, of course, my music. It's true I do work with people, but not to accomplish anything bad: just the basics that any person does in this business and with this opportunity to live out my dreams.

Clothing has been called intimate architecture. We want to go beyond that.

The idea of being a designer is always something that has intrigued me.

Color is so intuitive.

Good technology is intuitive - the cellphone forces you to become an engineer.

Drawing on a computer doesn't make any sense to me. It's not intuitive.

Macs are not intuitive. It's intuitive to the person who created it. It's not intuitive to me.

I see that idea that we need a new form as something critical. I mean, we do need to invent and not be benchmarking all the time. That's important to me.

I broke pretty much every rule of classic game design and tried to invent new ones.