Quotes and Sayings About Design
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…words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which she must spin out--the silk is her life, her home, her safety--her food and drink too--and if it is attacked or pulled down, why, what can she do but make more, spin afresh, design anew….
-- A. S. Byatt -
Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.
-- Aaron Betsky -
Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
-- Aaron Copland -
The other big factor in building trust quickly is site design quality. Mint.com has one of the best graphic designers ever (Jason Putorti) - he cares about every pixel, all the fonts, all the transparencies and effects. And that shows instantly. People do make judgments of trust on appearance - in the real world and online.
-- Aaron Patzer -
Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.
-- Abdallah II -
Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.
-- Abraham Clark -
Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design: We may imagine Chance and Design to be, as it were, in Competition with each other, for the production of some sorts of Events, and many calculate what Probability there is, that those Events should be rather be owing to the one than to the other.
-- Abraham de Moivre -
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
-- Achille Castiglioni -
Delete, delete, delete and at the end find the ‘core aspect of the design’
-- Achille Castiglioni -
As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
-- Ad Reinhardt -
Because it is a national landmark, there is only one way to judge the Kennedy Center - against the established standard of progressive and innovative excellence in architectural design that this country is known and admired for internationally. Unfortunately, the Kennedy Center not only does not achieve this standard of innovative excellence; it also did not seek it. The architect opted for something ambiguously called 'timelessness' and produced meaninglessness. It is to the Washington manner born. Too bad, since there is so much of it.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable -
It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable -
The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.
-- Adam Osborne -
Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.
-- Adam Savage -
I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May ‘43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in ‘42 - even in my position. This aircraft didn’t have any priority in design or production.
-- Adolf Galland -
Flow systems have two basic features (properties). There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows.
-- Adrian Bejan -
The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow…
-- Adrian Bejan -
No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.
-- Adrian Forty -
Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.
-- Adrian Frutiger -
If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page... When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful.
-- Adrian Frutiger -
From all these experiences the most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close together and that type design, in its restraint, should be only felt but not perceived by the reader.
-- Adrian Frutiger -
I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.
-- Ai Weiwei -
I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.
-- Ai Weiwei -
No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
-- Alan Cooper -
If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.
-- Alan Cooper -
Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is 'on paper.'
-- Alan Cooper -
Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
-- Alan Cooper -
Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
-- Alan Kay -
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.
-- Alan Kay
