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Quotes About Design

You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.
~ Edward de Bono
In the future, in a saner system, we would design products not to wear out and break down; to last as long as possible, so that the responsibility of the service sector would not be overloaded.
~ Jacque Fresco
In future there will be no more designers. The designers of the future will be the personal coach, the gym trainer, the diet consultant.
~ Philippe Starck
The future of architecture is culture.
~ Philip Johnson
If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
~ Edward de Bono
Who knows how Mario will look in the future. Maybe he'll wear metallic clothes!
~ Shigeru Miyamoto
You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future
~ Edward de Bono
The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public wanted was the future.
~ William Gibson
My job as a designer is to look into the future. Not to use any frame of reference that exists
~ Marc Newson
It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
~ Tadao Ando
We each build our own future. We are the architects of our own fortune.
~ Appius Claudius Caecus
Without a future well designed we take hesitant steps.
~ Jim Rohn
I wish Peeta were here to hold me, until I remember I'm not supposed to wish that anymore. I have chosen Gale and the rebellion, and a future with Peeta is the Capitol's design, not mine.
~ Suzanne Collins
Fashion has also been a great outlet, and I'd like to do more fashion photography in the future. I also photograph a lot of artists.
~ Steven Sebring
One thing that is sometimes forgotten in this "future of books" discussion is that there are all these awesome presses - big and small - that are producing and designing amazing books.
~ Kevin Sampsell
Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.
~ Larry Wall
Genome design is going to be a key part of the future. That's why we need fast, cheap, accurate DNA synthesis, so you can make a lot of iterations of something and test them.
~ Craig Venter
Sometime in the future, I am a hundred percent certain scientists will sit down at a computer terminal, design what they want the organism to do, and build it.
~ Craig Venter
As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.
~ Norman Foster
The combination of human skills with technology will always be at the root of any solution to the future of making clothes.
~ Issey Miyake
The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be
~ Paula Scher
The grid is like the lines on a football field. You can play a great game in the grid or a lousy game. But the goal is to play a really fine game.
~ Wim Crouwel
The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.
~ Alvar Aalto