Design Quotes - Page 55

More than the act of testing, the act of designing tests is one of the best bug preventers known.

Counter the effects of culture (steering your design ideas) by going out and looking for new experiences.

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

Just just because there are flaws in aircraft design that doesn't mean flying carpets exist.

Meanwhile, my residence within the Federal lines, and my acquaintance with so many of the officers, the origin of which I have already mentioned, enabled me to gain much important information as to the position and designs of the enemy.

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

Get in over your head as often and as joyfully as possible.

When Van Truex defined the difference between designing and decorating, he used the analogy of preparing a roast of beef. Design, he said, is the preparation and cooking; decorating is the final seasoning, the savoring.

Life is all about manners. Nothing else matters.

We worked with the engineers in the design and construction and testing phases in those various areas, then we would get back together at the end of the week and brief each other as to what had gone on.

Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is 'on paper.'

The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow.

To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. Design is how you treat your customers. If you treat them well from an environmental, emotional, and aesthetic standpoint, you're probably doing good design.

I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have been concluded.

Design is everything.

Our job is to bring the dead facts to life.

A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it's bad.

Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what design is all about. To find fault with biological design - as Stephen Jay Gould regularly does - because it misses some idealized optimum is therefore gratuitous. Not knowing the objectives of the designer, Gould is in no position to say whether the designer has proposed a faulty compromise among those objectives.

Design theorists are no friends of theistic evolution.

Over and over, people try to design systems that make tomorrow's work easy. But when tomorrow comes it turns out they didn't quite understand tomorrow's work, and they actually made it harder.

The ideal set-up would be the story man, the director, and the layout man, as well as musician, operating as a sort of story unit. They all should be keenly interested in the picture. No one in person should donate to an extent where he would keep the others from entering into the production and freely expressing themselves.

Modern Carpet Designs may provide endless entertainment for your guests.

The source of innovation is freedom. All we have - new knowledge, invention - comes from freedom. Discoveries and new knowledge come from freedom. When somebody is responsible only to himself, [has] only himself to satisfy, then you'll have invention, new thought, now product, new design, new ideas.

I am always locked in my design studio.

Lead a life of your own design, on your own terms -not one that others, or the environment have scripted for you.