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Quotes About Design

I don't have any furniture of mine in my room.
~ Marc Newson
One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.
~ James Dyson
I lust after iPods or Mini Coopers not because they're unique, but because they've been so artfully made that I couldn't imagine doing it better myself.
~ Clive Thompson
I must have made 20 different bicycles in my life; bicycle parts are like works of art in miniature.
~ David Linley
I think 'Tron' is a good example of minimalism.
~ Thomas Bangalter
I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.
~ La Monte Young
Natura nihil agit frustra, [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputed Axiome in Philosophy.
~ Thomas Browne
The finger of God hath left an inscription upon all his works, not graphical or composed of letters, but of their several forms, constitutions, parts and operations, which, aptly joined together, do make one word that doth express their natures.
~ Thomas Browne
It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
~ Thomas Hobbes
any concentrated mass is actually a local distortion of space itself, there happens to be exactly one surface, registered with the U.S. Patent Office, which, incorporated into a suitable hat design, will take the impact load of any known safe falling from any current altitude, transmitting to the wearer only the most trivial of resultant vectors.
~ Thomas Pynchon
I am offended only by certain sorts of wallpaper
~ Thomas Pynchon
call God the Great Architect, because the first thing He designed was sound," Bach replied. "'In the Beginning was the Word,' you remember? Who knows? Perhaps it was not only a word. Perhaps it was music. Maybe God sang an endless canon of His own invention, and through it, the universe was wrought.
~ Katherine Neville
THE WORLD IS made of patterns. The rings of a tree. The raindrops on the dusty ground. The path the sun follows from morning to dusk.
~ Kathi Appelt
Campbell plaid.
~ Kathleen Morgan
The rear door was black, the driver's side door was red, and the hood was sunshine-yellow. If Henry Ford and Picasso had gone out on a bender, that car was what the hangover would have looked like.
~ Kathleen O'Reilly
Someone who combines HTML, CSS, and JavaScript skills might be called a "front-end developer.
~ Kathleen Taylor
But Paris had been designed. Here, historical landmarks appeared graciously; evenly spaced for maximum aesthetic impact. One had only to follow from one to another to reach any destination, including the Left Bank.
~ Kathleen Tessaro
I won't give up my day job of design.
~ Kathy Ireland
It seemed the architect couldn't stop until he'd incorporated
~ Kathy Reichs
I love heels... whoever created heels is amazing!
~ Katie Cassidy
The main stairs were carpeted
~ Katie Flynn
I think one of the changes of our consciousness of how things come into being, of how things are made and how they work . . . is the change from an engineering paradigm, which is to say a design paradigm, to a biological paradigm, which is a cultural and evolutionary one. In lots and lots of areas now, people say, How do you create the conditions at the bottom to allow the growth of the things you want to happen?—Brian Eno
~ Katie Salen
Our school design process attempts to harness strategic thinking around gaming and game design as an innovative curricular and learning
~ Katie Salen
Using Game Design and Systems Thinking Everything I do in school connects to my life outside of school through a game design and systems perspective.
~ Katie Salen