Quotes About Design

Good design can't fix broken business models.

There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.

Everyday people are not very good designers.

You can design a mortgage system that is different without a Fannie and Freddie, but there are principles you have to have, to have a good system.

A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been designed so it would actually be good for the environment?

Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap.

It's my job to know what's available from every retailer, catalog, website, antiques mall, and craftsperson. A good designer or decorator has to have an almost encyclopedic knowledge.

Perhaps I'd like to design cars, but I don't think I'd be much good at it.

The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence.

Design isn't risky - change is. Good design mitigates that risk.

I had dropped a good design, which I had once bent my thoughts upon, and that was to try if I could not make some of my barley into malt, and then try to brew myself some beer.

A good designer will actually design the company.

Holland is very good at avant garde, probably due to the Dutch character. Good at design. Experimentation sometimes works here very well.

If you design something pretty with good golf shots in it, then I think that's the combination that creates a really nice golf course.

We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining.

Good design is being able to put a $100,000 thing next to a $20 thing. If it looks right and it works then it works. It doesn't have to be expensive; it's all about the high meets low for me.

Us visual thinkers like me, be good at things like industrial design, graphics, art, those kind of jobs.

As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called a 'singularity.'

The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.

People in the UK will say that the design community in the US is much more coherent than other countries. It has no government support at all, so it's really like a grass roots thing.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.