Quotes About Design

I spin and weave and knit my words and visions until a life starts to take shape.

Thanks! Lawrence Block Ebook Design: JW Manus

Perfect typography is more a science than an art.

To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope.

It is the rule which says that the other rules of scientific procedure must be designed in such a way that they do not protect any statement in science against falsification.

Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.

Engineering is the art or science of making practical.

The new art must be based upon science - in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of the sciences.

It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process beauty through function and simplification.

A designer must always think about the unfortunate production engineer who will have to manufacture what you have designed; try to understand his problems.

Engineering is a predictive science, not a manipulative art.

In the design of fission reactors man was not an innovator but an unwitting imitator of nature.

The first principle of architectural beauty is that the essential lines of a construction be determined by a perfect appropriateness to its use.

It is cheaper to pay mathematicians and computer scientists to design algorithms that will eliminate webspamming, rather than to pay lawyers to do lawsuits.

Nature creates curved lines while humans create straight lines.

The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.

The human body was designed by a civil engineer. Who else would run a toxic waste pipeline through a recreational area ?

It is a real service to humanity and the world to be a good programmer, particularly if you design great products. You make is easier for everybody, everybody has less headaches.

[M]anufacturing, science and engineering are ... incredibly creative. I'd venture to say more so than creative advertising agencies and things that are known as the creative industries.

We need no science of formulae, but a science of forms.

The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.

Engineers use knowledge primarily to design, produce, and operate artifacts. ... Scientists, by contrast, use knowledge primarily to generate more knowledge.

I say the Intelligent Design-evolution debate misses the point. It trivializes God and it trivializes science. The universe is like the hand of God. The world is God's body.

A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization.