Design Quotes - Page 107

Everything at Apple can be best understood through the lens of designing. Whether it's designing the look and feel of the user experience, or the industrial design, or the system design, and even things like how the boards were laid out.

When I was 5 or 6 years old, I never wanted toys; I wanted electrical parts so I could build things. And I was better at taking things apart and putting them back together, but I always had extra pieces left over, so I think it was an early warning that I was a better designer than an engineer.

The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design.

If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.

We are at the point where game designers have become celebrities due to the size of the market they serve.

You have to design and program differently. Combat action in an MMO is so different to combat in a first-person shooter.

It is very important to lead the field and innovate in game design.

There is not necessarily a good reason why a regulator should have to be involved in product design and marketing for rich and sophisticated investors. We recommend that such investors should be able to sign a piece of paper, which allows them to go ahead and buy unregulated products at their own risk.

I'm still really into set design and construction when I do films. I notice that stuff.

But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .

Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately.

Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars.

Design provides solutions, art asks questions.

Things that I can do myself, I either do by myself, or teach a willing undergraduate who doesn't know how to do those things by doing it for me. Things that I can't do myself, my graduate students should be doing.

Communication in every which way is everything for the leader.

I like stuff designed by dead people. The old designers. They always got it right because they didn't have to grow up with computers. All of the people that made the spoon and the dishes and the vacuum cleaner didn't have microprocessors and stuff. You could do a good design back then.

My role is to find strategic insights as to where design can have the most business impact. A designer can bring a viewpoint of not just aesthetics, but economics and usage.

Technology makes possibilities. Design makes solutions. Art makes questions. Leadership makes actions.

Design is about crafting an experience that is unfamiliar enough to feel novel, yet familiar enough to instill confidence.

And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject.

Instead of asking, 'What should a woman do—what is her role?' it would be far more helpful to ask, 'What is a woman—what is her design?' and, 'Why did God place Woman in our midst?

When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end.

Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.

My first girlfriend, when I was about 18, was a fashion designer, and my sister was a fashion designer as well. I've always been into shopping, and I've always been very aesthetic, in a sense.

Action is cool but it's all down to the director's interpretation at the end of the day, so you have to serve his visions and do what you can. So, you do your job to the best of your ability, you perform the fight and then it's out of your hands. It's then down to the director or the producer. You can give your opinion but often it's not heard. Actors have their riders and all kinds of contract terms and one of my big ones as I continue to make a name for myself as a top action guy is that I design my own action in films and oversee the edit.