Quotes About Design

Cryptography shifts the balance of power from those with a monopoly on violence to those who comprehend mathematics and security design.

To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats.

It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.

For me, faith means that what is right will win out one day. It means that the universe is not aimless but moves by some positive design.

I think constraints are very important. They're positive, because they allow you to work off something.

Better to do planning, Rather than being planned.

A plan that is not written is just an idea.

Excluding the God of providence in your life's configuration and design is like removing the thermostat from a thermodynamic system.

Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion.

Are we gonna see power laces in 2015? To that I say yes!

Never underestimate the power of a shoe.

Design is both a political and cultural force for change, although most designers choose not to think about the power it has.

The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture.

De twijfel zit in zijn werk als een breipatroon in een damesblad.

Whenever explaining an event, we must choose from three competing modes of explanation. These are regularity, chance, and design... To attribute an event to design is to say that it cannot reasonably be referred to either regularity or chance.

Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what design is all about. To find fault with biological design - as Stephen Jay Gould regularly does - because it misses some idealized optimum is therefore gratuitous. Not knowing the objectives of the designer, Gould is in no position to say whether the designer has proposed a faulty compromise among those objectives.

Being as Communion is the final book in a trilogy. The two earlier books were The Design Inference and No Free Lunch.

The first thing you're going to need in order to handle nonstop organizational change is an overall design within which the various and separate changes are integrated as component elements. In periods of major strategic change, such a design may have been announced to the organization by its leadership. When that happens, you're fortunate. Even if you don't entirely agree with the logic of the larger change, you benefit from the coherence it gives to the component changes.

He's computerized, but I won't let him come on cold. I created KITT. I understand the personality of the car.

The word of God—it is both seed to beget, and food to nourish, holiness begotten in the heart. Every part of it contributes to this design abundantly.

Marketing's job is to design intangibles into the product and then to use them to make products unique.

The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.

All gardening is landscape painting.

with hand-painted flowers.