Quotes About Design

Cars will need to be designed with whole new ways of thinking. The design of cars will need to adapt to a whole new transportation system. Each individual car part will evolve as functionalities evolve and the way we utilize cars evolves.

Systems Design is a vital part of transforming the transportation industry. At Mayflower-Plymouth, we are rethinking the way people and resources interact with methods of transport, and how to achieve the most efficiency and comfort in those interactions.

Drawing is putting a line round an idea.

I do not distinguish between the construction of a book and that of a painting and I always proceed from the simple to the complex." - 1946

United States would become the indispensable defender of the order Europe designed.

At its simplest, the design school proposes a model of strategy making that seeks to attain a match, or fit, between internal capabilities and external possibilities.

Failure analysis is as easy as Monday-morning quarterbacking' design is more akin to coaching. However, the design engineer must do better than any coach, for he is expected to win every game he plays. That is a tough assignment when one mistake can often mean a loss. And when defeat occurs, all one can hope is to analyze the game films and learn from the mistakes so that they are less likely to be repeated the next time out.

It is the process of design, in which diverse parts of the "given-world" of the scientist and the "made-world" of the engineer are reformed and assembled into something the likes of which Nature had not dreamed, that divorces engineering from science and marries it to art.

Books are not made for furniture,but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.

In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional.

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

Games are nature's most beautiful creation

When my heart is broken as usual over someone's evanescent beauty and design after design they fade like kingdoms with no writing

The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.

Superior execution is vital to sustaining the success initiated by an innovative service concept. An innovator's service quality is usually more difficult to imitate than its service concept. This is because quality service comes from inspired leadership throughout an organization, a customer-minded corporate culture, excellent service-system design, the effective use of information and technology, and other factors that develop slowly in a company, if at all.

thinking of API design as resource design is a very effective way to avoid thinking about hypermedia.

The things you're accustomed to are dangerous. In applications intended for use within an organization, a design based on API calls works well and is easy to develop. The API call metaphor assumes away the network boundary and lets a client invoke a method on a remote computer just like it would call the API of a local code library.

in a hypermedia-based design, resources don't matter as much. The designer's job is to identify all the state transitions.

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

American architecture is the art of covering one thing with another thing, to immitate a third thing which, if genuine, would not be desirable

The following year, Leslie married an American, Barbara Meyer, who'd accompanied him to Tenerife. In early 1938, Charteris and his new bride set off in a trailer of his own design and spent eighteen months travelling round America and Canada.

If I do not know the purpose for which human life was designed, I have no basis for saying that any kind of human life-style is good or bad.

I wish the iPhone people would design one that's black and has two pieces, and it plugs into the wall and you can pick one piece up and talk into it. I tell you, the whole time I had one of those old-fashioned plug-in phones, not once did I misplace it.