Quotes About Design

Titanic as it sank into the icy sea? Would you prefer that the men leap ahead of you into the lifeboats, leave you and your children to die?" Alva answered without pause. "If a woman had designed the ship in the first place, there would have been enough lifeboats for everyone.

Win-Tech tried a lot harder to keep you than they did to keep me. I'm a backstop-type guy, hot on administration and controls. But people who can design circuits and take the bugs out of them are rare birds.

Despite what many modern educators would say, this is not a psychological disturbance brought on by violent television or chemical imbalance. Aggression is part of the masculine design; we are hardwired for it.

As C. S. Lewis wrote, "A car is made to run on gasoline, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on himself. He himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other."2 This is where our sin and our culture have come together to keep us in bondage and brokenness, to prevent the healing of our wounds.

Given the way creation unfolds, how it builds to ever higher and higher works of art, can there be any doubt that Eve is the crown of creation?

for Scotland and Normandy, which he knew to be linked and designed to win control of the English Channel

three white fleurs-de-lis on an azure background, set with three rubies and an emerald.

Owen Meany believed that "coincidence" was a stupid, shallow refuge sought by stupid, shallow people who were unable to accept the fact that their lives were shaped by a terrifying and awesome design – more powerful and unstoppable than the Yankee Flyer. (a train)

He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.

Any contractor who would construct a flat-roofed, two-storey building in Northern New Hampshire was enough of a moron to not know how many assholes a human being had.

I have sufficiently urged that all suggestions as to financial innovation be regarded with extreme skepticism. Such seeming innovation is merely some variant on an old design, new only in the brief and defective memory of the financial world.

Biological systems are the product not of logic but of evolution, an inelegant process. Life does not choose the logically best design to meet a new situation. It adapts what already exists. Much of the human genome includes genes which are "conserved"; i.e., which are essentially the same as those in much simpler species. Evolution has built upon what already exists.

Luck is the residue of design.

Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response.

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

Curves are so emotional.

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

There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.

While most people can talk rationally about kernel design and portability, the issue of free-ness is 100% emotional.

My buildings should have an emotional core - a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.

Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul, architects should lead in procuring social and environmental change.

Providing a real way to deal with the urgent needs of environmental issues that is accessible to everyone is the new fight for the democratization of design.

As a group, we want to follow good and green strategy. Setting targets is one element of that. The second part is to design products which meet environmental goals.

Form, which should be the clean - cut expression of mechanical excellence has become sensuous and organic.