Design Quotes - Page 82

It's very important to have a definitive style as a designer.

Good design is not about form following function. It is function with cultural content. By adding "cultural content" to the concept of "form follows function," objects cease to be finite or predictable. Maybe the right way to interpret the dictum is to first acknowledge that the function needs to be clearly understood before the form is considered.

Airplanes were invented by natural selection. Now you can say that intelligent design designs our airplanes of today, but there was no intelligent design really designing those early airplanes. There were probably at least 30,000 different things tried, and when they crash and kill the pilot, don't try that again.

One of the things about working for an old school studio like Warner Bros. is that there is an institutional culture and institutional memory, in terms of production design, camera work, and directors who understand how to do this kind of thing.

If you are demanding registration before checkout, you need to cease this practice immediately. It is costing you a fortune.

It's hard to read through a book on the principles of magic without glancing at the cover periodically to make sure it isn't a book on software design.

In evolution, as in all areas of science, our knowledge is incomplete. But the entire success of the scientific enterprise has depended on an insistence that these gaps be filled by natural explanations, logically derived from confirmable evidence. Because "intelligent design" theories are based on supernatural explanations, they can have nothing to do with science.

God always gave us light in our doubts, when we had no other design but to please Him.

Decide today to design and build the ideal relationship in your life. It's up to you.

Repetition is the death of magic.

The best of life is the exercise of ingenuity-in design, in finance, in flying, in business.

Kids are taking PCs and the Internet to new heights. They're the ones that are designing the cutting-edge web sites.

Ants offer special advantages for some important kinds of basic biological research. The colony is a superorganism. It can be analyzed as a coherent unit and compared with the organism in the design of experiments, with the individuals treated as the rough analogues of cells.

In any given marketplace, there's a triangle. There's a line of Dior goods at $25,000 that creates the sharp focus you need to sell $100 scarves to every woman. When [Design Miami] Basel popped on the scene, it proved there's a market for the top of the design triangle, which will lead the wide base beneath it.

You can never let your data dictate design. If you do, you end up following what people currently do and never innovating.

Design is the beauty of turning constraints into advantages.

People make decisions that may have one intent and yet are somehow perverted into something else. And sometimes it's because of design. Sometimes it's because of happenstance. But very often, it's mysterious to them.

Art brings out the grand lines of nature.

Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .

I knew I wanted to make a movie that looked decadent and expensive. I knew we would have to make every penny stretch and put as much of the budget onscreen as possible. So it starts with your heads of departments - your production designer, costume, hair and makeup designers. Picking the right people who were as committed as I was to telling the story as I was.

We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it.

I will venture to assert that no combination of designing men under heaven will be capable of making a government unpopular which is in its principles a wise and good one, and vigorous in its operations.

I have always believed that the more educated the clients are, the easier they are to work with. Clients with a knowledge of decorating, and an ability to articulate what they want from the finished project, make the designer's job easier.

The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.

I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.