Quotes About Design

The place had enormous possibilities. He realized that at once. The stream, of course, was perfect for sailing toy boats, for skipping stones, and, in the event of failing inspiration, for falling into. Several of the trees appeared to have been specifically designed for climbing, and one huge, white old birch overhanging the stream promised the exhilarating combination of climbing a tree and falling into the water, all at one time.

It'll help your attitude to look for evidence of design.

It is like Swinburne sat down on his soul's darkest night and designed an organized sport.

Good-Looking Men in Small Clever Rooms That Utilize Every Centimeter of Available Space With Mind-Boggling Efficiency.

The work that interests me is done with a pencil and a sheet of paper. Rarely even a calculator. At the cutting edge of electrical engineering, almost everything interesting is resolved via the manipulation of variables.

Every element in a design should be expressed to the extent necessary, but not beyond the extent necessary. Excess is noise.

The aesthetic-usability effect describes a phenomenon in which people perceive more-aesthetic designs as easier to use than less-aesthetic designs—whether they are or not.

Simplicity is achieved when everyone can easily understand and use the design, regardless of experience, literacy, or concentration level.

You may hang your walls with tapestry instead of whitewash or paper; or you may cover them with mosaic; or have them frescoed by a great painter: all this is not luxury, if it be done for beauty's sake, and not for show: it does not break our golden rule: Have nothing in your houses which you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful

Vi è stato un tempo nel quale il mistero e la meraviglia dell'artigianato avevano un giusto riconoscimento nel mondo, un tempo nel quale l'immaginazione e la fantasia si mescolavano a tutti gli oggetti prodotti dall'uomo; e in questi giorni ogni artigiano era quel che oggi definiremmo un artista.

No other work of man in any language even faintly resembles the intricate structure and design of the Bible. The fact remains – only an infinite mind could have devised this Book of books.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

First we shape our buildings; thereafter, they shape us.

we must have a better word than "prefabricated" [for houses]. Why not "ready-made"?

It has been well said, 'there is always more error than design in human affairs.

each thread can transmit electrical currents…so that Americans will one day…be able to recharge their cellphones with their polo shirts…. Technologically Enabled Clothing…has developed [a vest that conceals]…a "hydration system," a back pocket for a water bottle with a straw running through the vest's collar

I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape.

The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.

As is so often the case, shapings of history designed to bring out lost sources of vitality call upon fictions of ethnicity or race as their medium.

Architecture aims at Eternity.

There is nothing trivial or irrelevant in the Bible. Indeed, we discover that every detail in the Scripture is there by design and ultimately points to Jesus Christ.

He looked down at the pattern of black, interlocking rings on the brown carpet.

All knitting is choreography.

A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty, and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of surrounding open space.