Quotes About Design

The actual figure of Pac-Man came about as I was having pizza for lunch. I took one wedge and there it was, the figure of Pac-Man.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works. The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked.

The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

Burrell Smith, the designer of the Macintosh computer, said it as well as anyone in one of the sessions at the first Hacker Conference: "Hackers can do almost anything and be a hacker. You can be a hacker carpenter. It's not necessarily high tech. I think it has to do with craftsmanship and caring about what you're doing.

engineering comes down to two real principles: The first is that you think of every problem as a system. And every system can be better. No matter how good or bad it is, you can make anything better—

We designed Google to be the kind of place where the kind of people we wanted to work here would work for free. - Urs Hölzle

It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went around the earth. Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings. [ Can You Believe in God and Evolution? Time Magazine, August 7, 2005 ]

No thing happens in vain, but everything for a reason and by necessity.

intelligent design" ideology being promoted today is not science—it is rather the abdication of science.

Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff?

Imagine how weird phones would look if your mouth was nowhere near your ears.

Fear not, my lovely. You are still a major part of my design. In the meantime, concentrate on Lily Winter. She should be the focus of your energies at this time.

Perhaps there comes a time when a chink in the universe opens up, and a blinding clarity comes through. It is chance, I think, not design.

My wish is that we design the future of learning. We don't want to be spare parts for a great human computer.

mats perfectly picks up the color of the chairs?" "Honey, it's my restaurant. I'm the one who

I have my own brand called Monta, including a specially designed street soccer ball made out of a denim material which fades like your old jeans when used.

Design our world so that we have positive social and environmental side effects.

We always say we are a brand for our fans because through social media we're so lucky to see what people are asking us for, what they're looking for, and so we really design what we like but also take our fans in mind.

I design for social media. My customer reads blogs, is on social media, so I design with contrast in mind. An all-black shirt looks good on the shelf but not online.

Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical.

I am passionate about what design can do - how far it can support the new ideas and the new ways of living of this 21st Century. Good design accelerates this exciting future where manufacturing is local, materials and processes are cradle to cradle, business models are both socially and financially driven.

None of us is designed for the role we must assume in a revolutionary society, although Cubans had the privilege of Jose Marti's example.

Architects feel empowered to give opinions about politics and sociology and philosophy without knowing much about it. Kind of in the same way that they think they can design furniture or fashion or utensils for dining.

I had a great teacher who was really encouraging and said I should go to Central Saint Martins. So I worked my socks off, and I managed to get a place there. It was there that I developed a real love for design.