Quotes About Design

The housing stock along the broad Edinburgh Road was a linear map of a century of social housing, from scrubby squares of muddy grass around garden city dreams, to high-rise machines for living. Occasionally they passed a wall of undemolished tenements, the old housing design that had worked in the city for centuries.

Sermon design is not just a matter of what works. Sermon design also relates to theology, literary form, and to the culture of the world in which we live. We cannot

So much of it is the design of the shot or the motion of the character it's the work you do so that it has the same things that are in the movie. In just a few frames it's got to communicate something clearly and dramatically.

Many inventors often wish it secretly that they had invented Blue Jeans, because of the beauty and grace coupled with the comfort and simplicity that Jeans have created in our world.

I was an engineer with Fairbanks Morse, Mr. President. I helped design some of the engines in their locomotives before the war, but then transferred my knowledge to the engines used in the Grant and Lee tanks, many of which were sent to the British." FDR was once again intrigued by what he heard. "The engine that pulls my train is a Fairbanks Morse locomotive." Brock beamed. "Yes it is, sir. Engine 978.

To build means to make architecture real on the borders of knowledge.

All the public systems – administration, justice, education and political are designed to keep people with knowledge out. Such a system promotes mediocrity.

Intuitive design happens when current knowledge is the same as the target knowledge.

The thing is, 75 percent of design today is absolutely outdated. It all has to be redesigned with the materials and knowledge that we now have. We know so much more than what we are doing.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

We must offer the world leadership designed to advance the goal of universal progress and enduring peace.

Your divine design dictates your future direction.

Design is all about learning from doing, that's how we evolve to the best solution.

A design career is a process of learning better and better what you know instinctively.

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

Greening school design provides an extraordinarily cost-effective way to enhance student learning, reduce health and operational costs and, ultimately, increase school quality and competitiveness.

Something I've really enjoyed learning more about is course design.

God is the designer of the family.

Typography must be as beautiful as a forest, not like the concrete jungle of the tenements It gives distance between the trees, the room to breathe and allow for life.

Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.

First life, then spaces, then buildings - the other way around never works.

You know, it is life that is right and the architect who is wrong.

Life's opportunities never end. God designed you to be a continual learner, a continual doer, a continual explorer and a continual giver. He never authorized a 'retirement age' from those pursuits!

Simplify, then add lightness.