Quotes About Design

It's funny how, in this journey of life, even though we may begin at different times and places, our paths cross with others so that we may share our love, compassion, observations, and hope. This is a design of God that I appreciate and cherish.

The big optimizations come from refining the high-level design, not the individual routines.

once gotos are introduced, they spread through the code like termites through a rotting house.

Copy and paste is a design error

The goal is to minimize the amount of a program you have to think about at any one time. You might think of this as mental juggling—the more mental balls the program requires you to keep in the air at once, the more likely you'll drop one of the balls, leading to a design or coding error.

Inheritance adds complexity to a program, and, as such, it's a dangerous technique. As Java guru Joshua Bloch says, "Design and document for inheritance, or prohibit it." If a class isn't designed to be inherited from, make its members non-virtual in C++, final in Java, or non-overridable in Microsoft Visual Basic so that you can't inherit from it.

It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.

If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny.

I hope you're as lucky as I am. The world needs inventors--great ones. You can be one. If you love what you do and are willing to do what it really takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.

They're especially nice for shady areas where lawn won't grow.

Plan. Yes. Good idea. I should come up with a plan.

Alex Madrigal of The Atlantic has reported that fifteen of the top twenty retailers in the Fortune 500 use Helvetica,

I would have liked to invent the plain white shirt, with a skirt and pants to go with it.

I do not decide that skirts shall be short or long. The shape of the dress itself often dictates the length.

There's a reason hobble skirts are called hobble skirts. You literally can't move very far in them.

The sky is the limit as long as you keep the rooms practical, and I have become better at that since I had children. Function, form and organisation are all important.

The colors I choose there was to paint the first hotel, the Disneyland Hotel. Because of the cloudy sky we had in Paris, it had to be a particular kind of color who will fight those grey days. And also something you can see when you're driving up 'There it is! We're arriving!'

Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

There's a kind of beauty to a skyscraper.

To love shoes is to love problems. Every season, starting a new collection is my greatest challenge. The blank slate in front of me, starting the process all over again, there is no greater challenge.

I like... piecing things together because it gives you a product that you would never have come up with just sitting down and writing on a blank slate.

In the Seventies, album artwork became really beautiful items. The whole process of doing an album sleeve, it became a very artistic thing.

I'm good at pants. They are just two big sleeves sewn together.

I love to design. I am a commercial fashion designer. I always design jackets with two sleeves. I don't design jackets with three sleeves, or the layers and layers come off like little dolls from Russia. Fashion for me is a creative endeavor, but it is not art for me.