Quotes About Design

Sarasa, even if you feel that destiny is toying with you, destiny is something you design with your own hands.

When people design web pages, they often cater to the taste of the Google search algorithm rather than to the taste of any human being.

But at the dawn of the twenty-first century, this is no longer true: Homo sapiens is transcending those limits. It is now beginning to break the laws of natural selection, replacing them with the laws of intelligent design.

Which means that when designing their self-driving car, Toyota or Tesla will be transforming a theoretical problem in the philosophy of ethics into a practical problem of engineering

Why not go back to God's drawing board and design a better Sapiens?

It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies

I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality

The purpose of art, including literature, is not to reflect life but to organize it, to build it.

Those loves have gone beyond now, rocketed off to Antares while you were buffing your table with beeswax polish to get some glow back to your life, make it mean something because that's the fear, isn't it, all this time on the cloud-swathed earth that you haven't done what you were meant to, some large and noble design you've occasionally caught glimpses of, and lost.

Technology does not create learning just as a hammer does not make a house. Technology simplifies or amplifies our learning capacity. A microscope enables us to see the micro world. A telescope helps us see the macro world. It is not the microscope or telescope that sees. The two instruments are just accessories for our eyes. It is we who see through our human capacity of visual perception. Too much obsession with technology is like trying to design a house with a hammer in hand.

You are the architect of your own future, so design your future with uncompromising sincerity.

I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look.

Design is one of the few disciplines that is a science as well as an art. Effective, meaningful design requires intellectual, rational rigor along with the ability to elicit emotions and beliefs. Thus, designers must balance both the logic and lyricism of humanity every time they design something, a task that requires a singularly mysterious skill.

He designed the iconic Bob Dylan poster and the I Love New York icon. Milton Glaser

He has suggested that we eliminate the word art and replace it with work.

So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.

she just seemed to have been put together more on purpose than other people.

I wanted to design the house around my body and my needs, instead of following the pattern that I'd fallen into in my big house: picking paint colors and finishing the woodwork with some future owner and salability in mind. This was going to be my house.

There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood.

Karma keeps good and evil in balance. Karma is a divine law. When the law is violated, however innocently, it can't be undone. One snapped thread alters the whole design; one misdeed alters a person's destiny.

The chance that higher life forms might have emerged in this way [i.e., randomly] is comparable to the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junkyard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein.

The world contained in a seed is determined by its program.

Calvert Vaux, had already designed the most dynamic city parks of the day, including Central Park in Manhattan and Prospect Park in Brooklyn.

I witnessed all things quicken to color, to form my question not answered but given its part in a vast unfolding design lit by a rising sun.