Design Quotes - Page 12

The Escalation programmers come from a completely different background, and the codebase is all STL this, boost that, fill-up-the-property list, dispatch the event, and delegate that. I had been harboring some suspicions that our big codebases might benefit from the application of some more of the various “modern” C++ design patterns, despite seeing other large game codebases suffer under them. I have since recanted that suspicion.

Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club.

The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.

At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

In designing Supergirl, I wanted to embrace the past but more importantly, thrust her into the street-style action hero of today.

Don't bore the public with mysterious designs.

After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either.

A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.

Rooms should be timeless.

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

Modern PCs are horrible. ACPI is a complete design disaster in every way. But we're kind of stuck with it. If any Intel people are listening to this and you had anything to do with ACPI, shoot yourself now, before you reproduce.

The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.

If design isn't profitable, then it's art.

Simplicity is the final achievement.

The opposite of play is not work. It's depression.

A design isn't finished until someone is using it.

Be stimulated by rejection

If the world were clear, art would not exist.

I have designs I like applied to my helmet, motorcycle, riding suits, gloves,and boots. I have a designer friend of mine put the designs on them for me. I think a livery on the helmet is significant in expressing a rider's personality.

Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.

Designers don't actually solve problems. They work through them.

Form ever follows function.

A profound design process eventually makes the patron, the architect, and every occasional visitor in the building a slightly better human being.

The cause of the six-sided shape of a snowflake is none other than that of the ordered shapes of plants and of numerical constants; and since in them nothing occurs without supreme reason-not, to be sure, such as discursive reasoning discovers, but such as existed from the first in the Creators's design and is preserved from that origin to this day in the wonderful nature of animal faculties, I do not believe that even in a snowflake this ordered pattern exists at random.