Quotes About Design

Don't mistake legibility for communication

Never mistake legibility for communication.

Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.

For example, you cannot predict what numbers will come up on a fair (i.e. unbiased) roulette wheel. But if you understand what it is in the wheel's design and operation that makes it fair, then you can explain why predicting the numbers is impossible.

Did the Father in sending Christ, and did Christ in coming into the world, to make atonement for sin, do this with the design or for the purpose of saving only the elect or all men? That is the question, and that only is the question.

He'd have to be really smart. The universe is pretty intricate. And humans themselves are so complex, given what we've learned about DNA and all.' "Okay, God would have to be super intelligent." 'Yeah. I'm not sure I buy that design in the universe proves God, but if there was a God, he would really be intelligent – and powerful – to pull it all off.

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.

Lebanon, it seems, was almost designed to be the everlasting battleground for others' political, strategic and ideological conflicts, conflicts which sometimes escalate into their proxy wars.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

Traditional agriculture was labour intensive, industrial agriculture is energy intensive, and permaculture-designed systems are information and design intensive.

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

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

An ideal system, arranged of itself, without a precedent design, is not a whit more explicable than a material one which attains its order in a like manner; nor is there any more difficulty in the latter supposition than in the former.

Doctors troubleshoot the human body—they never got a chance to debug it. (It took God one day to design, prototype, and release that product; talk about schedule pressure! I guess we can forgive priority-two bugs like bunions and male pattern baldness.)

Reducing the quantity of design-in-progress boosts software quality.

When Kevin came to work with a bloody wound on his knee, they scanned that in too, to use as a wall texture

The actual inspirations for Lady Chanel were Samuel L. Jackson and "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert." As

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

I would hate for someone to look at my shoes and say, 'Oh my God! That looks so comfortable!'

God created everything by number, weight and measure.

You are designed by God not to blend in, but to stand out

One could perhaps describe the situation by saying that God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very advanced mathematics in constructing the universe.

If God had meant there to be more than two factors of production, He would have made it easier for us to draw three-dimension al diagrams.

I'm not a god, I'm not a genius, I'm not a monk, I make non-design for non-consumers. I don't know if I do exist.