Quotes About Design

Each plant and animal is exquisitely made; should not a supremely competent Designer have been able to make the intended variety from the start? The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer (although not with a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament).

If you make enough predictions, eventually you will get one right, but that is by accident, not design.

Life connects us all to magic, as illustrated through the design of the Grace. So, for a Confessor, I don't need a gifted person, just a living one.

Never build a dungeon you wouldn't be happy to spend the night in yourself. The world would be a happier place if more people remembered that.

Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw. It was its tendency to bend at the knees.

Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.

It was nice to think that mankind made a distinction between blowing their planet to bits by accident and doing it by design.

As they say in Discworld, we are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one another where the fresh fruit was.

It's a pervasive and beguiling myth that the people who design instruments of death end up being killed by them. There is almost no foundation in fact. Colonel Shrapnel wasn't blown up, M. Guillotin died with his head on, Colonel Gatling wasn't shot. If it hadn't been for the murder of cosh and blackjack maker Sir William Blunt-Instrument in an alleyway, the rumour would never have got started.

There was practically nothing that he wouldn't attack, including architecture.

Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.

Every one of my buildings begins with an Italian journey.

Light is what gives joy to buildings.

There's room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art.

Think of things that can be created, not destroyed, and that bring beauty and joy.

Each project is torturous and joyful, and it's always an inspiration.

I've always loved polka dots. Ah, oui. It is a joyful shape, the polka dot. It is alive.

I want to design women's clothes just as much as men's clothes.

Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.

Karl Lagerfeld is the hardest-working man in showbiz!

I'm influenced a lot by Chanel and by what Karl Lagerfeld has done.

Karl Lagerfeld is amazing. Chanel is such an iconic brand, but he always finds innovative ways to bring a contemporary feel to new collections.

I take a keen interest in the architecture of places when I travel.

The key to my collections is sensuality.