Design Quotes - Page 106

I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive.

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

Everyone is an artist.

There is a great amity between designing and art.

I call myself an experimental philosopher which is as ambiguous a term as comprehensive anticipatory design scientist.

We’re keenly aware that when we develop and make something and bring it to market that it really does speak to a set of values. And what preoccupies us is that sense of care, and what our products will not speak to is a schedule, what our products will not speak to is trying to respond to some corporate or competitive agenda. We’re very genuinely designing the best products that we can for people.

Apple's goal isn't to make money. Our goal is to design and develop and bring to market good products.

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

I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making.

We have always thought about design as being so much more than just the way something looks. It's the whole thing: the way something works on so many different levels. Ultimately, of course, design defines so much of our experience.

But one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I'm aware of designers wagging their tails in my face.

The computer industry is creatively bankrupt.

That's just tragic, that you can spend four years of your life studying the design of three dimensional objects and not make one.

One thing most people don't know is that Steve Jobs is an exceptional designer.

It's one of the curses of designing that when you look at anything, you're constantly thinking, Why? Why - why was it designed like that, and not like this?

If something is going to be better, it is new, and if it's new you are confronting problems and challenges you don't have references for.

As consumers we are incredibly discerning, we sense where has been great care in the design, and when there is cynicism and greed.

I discovered at an early age that all I've ever wanted to do is design.

What we don't include is as important as what we do include.

If you are truly innovating, you don't have a prototype you can refer to.

Design is the conscious imposition of meaningful order.

We have concluded that it is not [science], and moreover that ID cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents.

Cage of freedom, that's our prison; we're the jailer and captive combined Cage of freedom, cast in power; all the trappings of our own design. Blind ambition, steals our reason; we're soon behind those invisible bars On the inside, looking outside; to make it safer we double the guard.

Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing.

He's the best of us. The best of our best, the best that each of us will ever build or ever love. So pray for this Guardian of our growth and choose him well, for if he be not truly blessed, then our designs are surely frivolous and our future but a tragic waste of hope. Bless our best and adore for he doth bear our measure to the Cosmos.