Quotes About Design

The symbol "&" was a logogram—literally a picture representing a word. While many people assumed the symbol derived from the English word "and," it actually derived from the Latin word et. The ampersand's unusual design "&" was a typographical fusion of the letters E and T—the ligature still visible today in computer fonts like Trebuchet, whose ampersand "" clearly echoed its Latin origin.

The most amazing part," Katherine said, "is that as soon as we humans begin to harness our true power, we will have enormous control over our world. We will be able to design reality rather than merely react to it.

Nothing left to chance.

There are no straight lines in nature, Gaudí was once quoted as saying

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson—appearing in an old clip from the Cosmos television show—declared good-naturedly, "If a Creator designed our universe to support life, he did a terrible job. In the vast, vast majority of the cosmos, life would die instantly from lack of atmosphere, gamma-ray bursts, deadly pulsars, and crushing gravitational fields. Believe me, the universe is no Garden of Eden.

Biggleman's Safe was a hypothetical cryptography scenario in which a safe builder wrote blueprints for an unbreakable safe. He wanted to keep the blueprints a secret, so he built the safe and locked the blueprints inside.

There are no straight lines in nature, Gaudi was once quoted as saying, and indeed, there were very few straight lines seen his work either.

In the end, it is all we are, these limpid tide pools of self-consciousness between crashing waves of pain. We are destined and designed to bear our pain with us, hugging it tight to our bellies like the young Spartan thief hiding a wolf cub so it can eat away our insides.

And it was one of these observers who designed the tests and simulations carried out on Old Earth during the last three centuries of its exile in the Lesser Magellanic Cloud to better explain our species to them and measure the empathy of which we are capable.

Theoretically, I knew, Sholokov's design for the hawking mat allowed it to fly vertically, the incipient containment field keeping the passenger—theoretically, his beloved niece—from tumbling off backward.

Each fork in the road: the choice to stay home, to go out, to catch the flight, or cancel it, to take the 1 train, to stop at the bar on the corner. The chance encounters, split-second decisions that make the design—that are the design.

My father, a wise and grave man, gave me serious and excellent counsel against what he foresaw was my design. 

In terms of biological design for the basic neural circuitry of emotion, what we are born with is what worked best for the last 50,000 human generations, not the last 500 generations—and certainly not the last five.

Design. Story. Symphony. Empathy. Play. Meaning. These six senses increasingly will guide our lives and shape our world.

I wanted to design clothes to help build confidence.

Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.

There are many mysteries in old age but the greatest, surely, is this: in those adverts for walk-in bathtubs, why doesn't all the water gush out when you get in?

I knew from my youngest age I wanted to be a fashion designer. I was always draping fabric and working with color palettes.

At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater!

I discovered at an early age that all I've ever wanted to do is design.

Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?

As the Industrial Age is drawing to a close, I think that we're witnessing the dawn of the era of biological design.

Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age.

I had it drummed into me from an early age that personalizing everything was not a good thing. Besides, I don't think that kind of commodity-driven system makes for the most productive architecture.