Quotes About Design

Squares were good. Efficient. He approved of squares.

In 1934, the Chrysler/DeSoto Airflows were a revolution in design, sleeker, lower, and closer to the ground than anything then on the road, with a full steel body. They nearly wrecked the company, thanks in part to a number of glitches that had escaped notice, such as engines occasionally breaking loose from their mountings when the car reached eighty miles an hour.

I am serving the purpose for which I was designed, therefore I am satisfied with my existence.

Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.

The new OS is neither the classic communism of centralized planning without private property nor the undiluted selfish chaos of a free market. Instead, it is an emerging design space in which decentralized public coordination can solve problems and create things that neither pure communism nor pure capitalism can.

Where are our parents?" the Fang children asked in unison, inching closer to Hobart. Hobart sighed deeply and then pointed toward the living room and said, "Let's sit down and talk." Hobart took nearly five minutes to find a comfortable sitting position on his George Nelson–designed Kangaroo chair. Buster and Annie sat side by side opposite Hobart on a black leather sling sofa, feeling as though they were waiting for a bus that was very, very late.

As Tony Hoare observed: There are two ways of constructing a software design: one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.

If we accept that code is design — a creative process rather than a mechanical one — the software crisis is explained. We now have a design crisis: the demand for quality, validated designs exceeds our capacity to create them. The pressure to use incomplete design is strong.

To be able to design for the plus-sized consumer, for me, that's just beyond. It's a dream.

I design some of my own clothes now.

For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.

the facade is an ornate confection of Spanish, Italian, and Moorish influences.

God has a sense of humor. Don't believe me? Just look at a zebra and tell me what was going on in His mind that day.

I really see myself continuing to design clothes, fragrances.

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God as Architect, I Engineer!

How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?

It just happened." Stryder narrowed his eyes. "Nay, Simon. Foul weather just happens. Disaster just happens." He glared meaningfully. "/Death/ just happens. But people do not get betrothed without design. You will get me out of this, or so help me I will have your head and your bullocks.

Remember, your output is not a work of art; it's a work product designed to help the customer – whoever the customer is.

For the record, a mechanical engineer is responsible for how just about anything is built. We make sure any type of structure or vehicle or roadway is strong, safe and will stay together.

Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.

I approve designs not because I think I am more gifted or somebody who can see ahead three or four years from now, but just to make sure that the design is a logical, rational decision, taken after analyzing pros and cons.

My mom was a seamstress, and I wish I'd learned to sew because I'm obsessed with 'Project Runway!'