Quotes About Design

we shall connect the points, draw the line, and you and I shall form that unique design for which I yearn. If they do this kind of thing to me every morning, they will get me trained and I shall become quite wooden.

Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad, mob-like behaviors.

When developers of digital technologies design a program that requires you to interact with a computer as if it were a person, they ask you to accept in some corner of your brain that you might also be conceived of as a program.

As a writer, you are that architect.

When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.

the design actually makes him look more like a fireplace elf. Bob

The artist and writer Mervyn Peake, invalided out of military service, joined the Design, Poster and Visualising Group of the Ministry of Information in 1942.

In fact, one of the only things harder than building an intuitive, delightful, innovative, easy-to-use product is hiring a designer to do it for you.

I'd love to design bridal dresses.

The ships were among the most complicated machines of their day

The computer may be incompetent in itself--that is, unable to do the work for which it was designed. This kind of incompetence can never be eliminated, because the Peter Principle applies in the plants where computers are designed and manufactured.

The very essence of gravity was design, and consequently deceit… it was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined it,—viz., A mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind.

A good model can advance fashion by ten years.

Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.

Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.

Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible.

Architecture is slow and therefore requires anticipatory design.

architects (should) involve themselves continuously in anticipatory design as recommended by Buckminster Fuller

the Office's prime approach to architecture... is one of continuous ANTICIPATORY DESIGN.

C.P. Office sees its particular product (buildings) as the readily recognisable parts of its continuous design process.

Nothing is an accident,

Most communities just happen; the best are planned":

Nothing is an accident,' Pauline would say, again and again.

Lucien was exultant over his design, brimming with pride as if he'd just won the Prix de Rome. Delighted with his own ingenuity, he experienced the same sense of exhilaration that had swept over him at the rue Galilée.