Design Quotes - Page 17

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.

We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.

A shoe is not only a design, but it's a part of your body language, the way you walk. The way you're going to move is quite dictated by your shoes.

There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

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

Everywhere I go, I can't wear everything a designer creates. I'm a little more gritty.

The best design tool is a long eraser with a pencil at one end.

Type production has gone mad, with its senseless outpouring of new types... only in degenerate times can personality (opposed to the nameless masses) become the aim of human development.

The weak and the defenseless in this world invite aggression from others. The best way we can serve peace is by removing the temptation from the path of those who think we are weak and, for that reason, they can bully or attack us. That temptation can only be removed if we make ourselves so strong that nobody dare entertain any aggressive designs against us. Pakistan has come to stay and no power on earth can destroy it

Our weavings in the cosmic web are not self-contained. Rather, they are part of the design of our collective humanity.

Designing is not a profession but an attitude... Thinking in relationships.

Design is a process - an intimate collaboration between engineers, designers, and clients.

Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best. Luck is the residue of design.

Prayer is not appointed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed as a confession to Him of our sense of the need. In this, as in everything, God's thoughts are not as ours. God requires that His gifts should be sought for. He designs to be honoured by our asking, just as He is to be thanked by us after He has bestowed His blessing.

To touch somebody’s heart with design.

Design is the organization of materials and processes in the most productive way, in a harmonious balance of all elements necessary for a certain function.

Design is not the act of amazing an audience with the novelty of forms or materials; it is the originality that repeatedly extracts astounding ideas from the crevices of the very commonness of everyday life.

In college, you're kind of designing who you want to be. And I wanted to be a big reader.

A true leader is one who designs the cathedral and then shares the vision that inspires others to build it.

In the future, in a saner system, we would design products not to wear out and break down; to last as long as possible, so that the responsibility of the service sector would not be overloaded.

When the image is new, the world is new.

There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.

I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance.