Quotes About Design

Primates are the only animals on the face of the earth that can taste sweet and see color. We were designed by nature to see, grasp, eat, and enjoy the flavor of colorful, sweet fruits.

God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose

Nature has a surer plan than mortals can devise.

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary

There are no accidents in Nature.

All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.

Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.

For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.

Consciously designed landscapes which mimic the patterns and relationships found in nature, while yielding an abundance of food, fibre and energy for provision of local needs.

There's something about the processional nature of the architecture, of the rooms connecting rooms. It's just breathtaking.

Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.

In design, Mother Nature is our best teacher.

Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.

Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature.

Nature creates nothing without a purpose.

Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.

Architecture is supposed to complete nature. Great architecture makes nature more beautiful-it gives it power.

Like delicate lace, so the threads intertwine, oh, gossamer web of wond'rous design! Such beauty and grace wild nature produces... Ughh, look at that spider suck out that bug's juices!

Art may make a suite of clothes, but nature must produce a man.

The philosophers likewise assume that in Nature there is nothing in vain, so that everything that is not the product of human industry serves a certain purpose, which may be known or unknown to us.

Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature.

Some super-calculating intellect must have designed the properties of the carbon atom, otherwise the chance of my finding such an atom through the blind forces of nature would be utterly minuscule.

In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.