Quotes About Design

This alleged mystery, though, is a knot that we can untie with the Bible in our hands. We can acknowledge that man has all the marks of a majestic temple about him – a temple in which God once dwelt but which is now in utter ruins, a temple in which a shattered window here and a doorway and a column there still give some faint idea of the magnificence of the original design – but a temple which from end to end has lost its glory and has fallen from its once lofty position.

furniture designers, incredibly, are not taught during their formal training how to calculate the deflection in an ordinary bookshelf when it is loaded with books,

It is necessary to avoid confusion between the strength of a structure and the strength of a material.

S. T. Dupont lighter

The Washington Monument is just one part of the original design - there were due to be another thirty or so columns and statues of famous Revolutionary Americans. Unfortunately, the entire budget was used on the tower, and there was nothing left for the rest.

Trouble travels fast / When you're specially designed for crash testing / Or wearing wool sunglasses in the afternoon.

I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.

Make sure that the very different colors go next to each other so it looks deliberate. You don't want to look as if you've just run out of colour and gone for the next nearest thing.

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form.

Architects should make houses into gardens, and gardens into houses.

Art is memory's mise-en-scene.

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.

I believe that architects should design gardens to be used, as much as the houses they build, to develop a sense of beauty and the taste and inclination toward the fine arts and other spiritual values.

Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it.

I believe in an "emotional architecture." It is very important for human kind that architecture should move by its beauty; if there are many equally valid technical solutions to a problem, the one which offers the user a message of beauty and emotion, that one is architecture.

Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a mistake.

Silence. In the gardens and homes designed by me, I have always endeavored to allow for the interior placid murmur of silence, and in my fountains, silence sings.

Thierry had no idea why they were called French doors. His native countrymen weren't stupid enough to put them in their homes.

When sin entered the world, it broke the goodness of God's design. And sin absolutely breaks God's heart. But in no way did sin affect the goodness of God. He has a plan, a good plan to rid this world of every effect of sin.

God sees within me the ability to be the one He's perfectly designed to raise up this strong little person.

Mark-8, another 8008-based machine, designed in the fall of 1973 by Jonathan Titus,

When the systems are truly complex, in short, programming has to be a process of exploration and discovery. That had been the whole point of interactive languages such as Lisp, as well as interactive-design tools such as Sketchpad: they made it easy to explore new solutions by making it easy to formulate and then reformulate ideas on the fly.

Human Factors in Electronics.