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Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

Quotes by Freeman Thomas

Why should we build very large spaces when they are not necessary? We can design halls spanning several kilometres and covering a whole city, but we have to ask, what does it really make? What does society really need?

Quotes by Frei Otto

Film gives us the luxury of deciding where the viewpoint of the audience is, and by knowing that, we can very effectively design around what is actually seen on camera.

Quotes by Freddie Wong

Whenever I design any variant, or when anybody sends me one, I always say if at all possible within the context of the game don't have two home supply centers touching each other.

Quotes by Fred Davis

Tesla is changing the paradigm. We're going to turn the world on its ear and create high demand through design.

Quotes by Franz von Holzhausen

We have an opportunity with the Model S to refine the design language, the surfacing, and all aspects of functionality.

Quotes by Franz von Holzhausen

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

Frank Zappa

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright

Space is the breath of art.

Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright

A lot of people don't get it, but I design from the inside out so that the finished product looks inevitable somehow. I think it's important to create spaces that people like to be in, that are humanistic.

Quotes by Frank Gehry

There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.

Quotes by Frank Gehry

Each season I strive to design a forward-thinking and effortless collection with a very clean minimalist aesthetic.

Quotes by Francisco Costa

I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.

Quotes by Francisco Costa

Proponents of intelligent design don't accept that some of the very complex nanomachines that we have inside ourselves could have come about solely on the basis of natural selection.

Quotes by Francis Collins

When I met Dante I didn't work in the movies, but I enjoyed so much the movies. I worked in interior design and when I met Dante, we tried to do something together.

Quotes by Francesca Lo Schiavo

My undergrad degree was in graphic design, and I don't work in that anymore, but I obviously do a lot of design and editing and Photoshopping, and the Adobe Creative Cloud is essential!

Quotes by Franchesca Ramsey

I think of what I do as copying nature's design process.

Quotes by Frances Arnold

No human can design a good enzyme, yet we are surrounded by them after 3.5 billion years of work by evolution.

Quotes by Frances Arnold

I've always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be in stage setting or interior design or something. I like clutter and I'm quite visually greedy. I can't have things to be plain; I have to have things looking interesting... maybe I'm just a frustrated interior designer stuck in a singing career.

Quotes by Florence Welch

Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor's words in speech or writing or design.

Quotes by Filippo Brunelleschi

Luckily I don't have to buy shoes anymore, because I design them! I'm off tour, so I can dive in and create the shoes that I want for my line. But okay, I did buy a pair of vintage combat boots because they were so beaten up - I had to have them.

Quotes by Fergie

Good design should be honest.

Quotes by Ferdinand Porsche

Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

Quotes by Ferdinand Porsche

For much of its existence, design was all about convenience. We wanted to hide technology so that users are not distracted into thinking about the tools they use.

Quotes by Evgeny Morozov

Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design.

Quotes by Eva Zeisel

I don't like to design single objects. I like my pieces to have a relationship to each other. They can be mother and child, like the Schmoo salt and pepper shakers, or brother and sister like the Birdie salt and peppers, or cousins, like most of my dinnerware sets.

Quotes by Eva Zeisel

When I design something, I think of it as a gift to somebody else.

Quotes by Eva Zeisel

Men have no concept of how to design things for the home. Women should design the things they use.

Quotes by Eva Zeisel

Something I've really enjoyed learning more about is course design.

Quotes by Ernie Els

There are lots of examples of routine, middle-skilled jobs that involve relatively structured tasks, and those are the jobs that are being eliminated the fastest. Those kinds of jobs are easier for our friends in the artificial intelligence community to design robots to handle them. They could be software robots; they could be physical robots.

Quotes by Erik Brynjolfsson

The theory of mechanism design can be thought of as the 'engineering' side of economic theory.

Quotes by Eric Maskin

If budget planning requires gathering information from people who may not always have the incentive to disclose that information, then the principles of mechanism design can definitely be of use in such planning.

Quotes by Eric Maskin

I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasn't available in the U.K., so I turned to music.

Quotes by Eric Burdon

I grew up in Northern California on the peninsula. It was a beautiful house, but it was very traditional. It wasn't midcentury modern. I'm talking 1970s, early '80s - design didn't even go 'Wall Street' until, like, 1986.

Quotes by Eric Dane

As for design, I gravitate to traditional styles but mix it with an element of surprise. Whether it's a big sash bow in the back or an unexpected fabric, it all needs to work together.

Quotes by Emilia Wickstead

I love everything I design.

Quotes by Emilia Wickstead

Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.

Quotes by Elon Musk

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

Quotes by Elon Musk

You think about the beauty and what you want to transmit. If I think about designing, I can't design.

Quotes by Elsa Peretti

I design for the working girl.

Quotes by Elsa Peretti

Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code.

Quotes by Ellen Ullman

Multitasking, throughput, efficiency - these are excellent machine concepts, useful in the design of computer systems. But are they principles that nurture human thought and imagination?

Quotes by Ellen Ullman

Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture.

Quotes by Ellen DeGeneres

The mission of professional mountain climbers is almost impossibly difficult by design: Their very livelihood is based on achieving the unprecedented. Their expeditions are complicated, exhausting, often life-threatening. Risk is the fuel that keeps them going.

Quotes by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

A movie contains literally tens of thousands of ideas. They're in the form of every sentence; in the performance of each line; in the design of characters, sets, and backgrounds; in the locations of the camera; in the colors, the lighting, the pacing.

Quotes by Edwin Catmull

Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.

Quotes by Edward Tufte

I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.

Quotes by Edward Tufte

A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.

Quotes by Edith Head

When I sit down and design, it's shoes that always appear.

Quotes by Edgardo Osorio

I design flats like I design heels: They must be seductive, beautiful and comfortable.

Quotes by Edgardo Osorio

Being inspired is one thing, but completely knocking off a design is another. There is a big difference.

Quotes by Edgardo Osorio

I've got a design for an airship in my head, which I'm going to play around with. I've got ideas for buildings and studios and all kinds of stuff.

Quotes by Edd China

Watching my dad, Ralph Lauren, design clothes when I was young, I was always inspired.

Quotes by Dylan Lauren

In the design process, there's a need to be culturally comprehensive.

Quotes by Dries van Noten

I don't design for myself. I design something keeping in mind that it has to please a lot of women.

Quotes by Dries van Noten

I'm a fashion designer, not a shoe designer. I like to design clothes.

Quotes by Dries van Noten

Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications.

Quotes by Drew Endy

I often read nonfiction with a pencil in hand. I love the feel, the smell, the design, the weight of a book, but I also enjoy the convenience of my Kindle - for travel and for procuring a book in seconds.

Quotes by Drew Gilpin Faust

I'm opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I don't waver.

Quotes by Douglas Wilson

In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project.

Quotes by Douglas Wilson

I look at each episode in two ways - from a design standpoint and from an entertainment standpoint - this is TV, after all. We usually succeed on at least one of the levels.

Quotes by Douglas Wilson

Throughout the country, I see the same design problems and solutions over and over.

Quotes by Douglas Wilson

Being in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS.

Quotes by Douglas Wilson

What people respond to in my room makeovers is the daring design - fearless colors, bold fabrics and occasionally outlandish decor.

Quotes by Douglas Wilson

IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film.

Quotes by Douglas Trumbull

My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures.

Quotes by Douglas Trumbull

There were IBM logos designed for the film, and there were IBM design consultants working with Kubrick on the layout of the controls and computer screens.

Quotes by Douglas Trumbull

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Quotes by Douglas Adams

You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.

Quotes by Dorothy Dunnett

Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.

Quotes by Donna Karan

It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format.

Quotes by Donald Norman

Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.

Quotes by Donald Norman

User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project.

Quotes by Donald Norman

Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone.

Quotes by Donald Norman

In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.

Quotes by Donald Norman

Everyday people are not very good designers.

Quotes by Donald Norman

I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing.

Quotes by Donald Norman

Wherever you are, design your life. Live the values of your generation.

Quotes by Don Tapscott

Decisions are the frequent fabric of our daily design.

Quotes by Don Yaeger

All leading brands started with and still possess the DNA of innovation and creativity, but it is often limited to one or two areas such as design or engineering. For a company to prosper, it must inject this innovative spirit into every aspect of the business.

Quotes by Dinesh Paliwal

I'd love to design stuff that I'd like to wear and that other people could wear, too.

Quotes by Dionne Bromfield

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

Quotes by Dieter Rams

Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role.

Quotes by Dieter Rams

We forget the importance of engineering, but it's been used to design everything from St. Paul's Cathedral to The Shard.

Quotes by Dick Strawbridge

I design for the woman who loves being a woman.

Quotes by Diane von Furstenberg

A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials.

Quotes by Diane von Furstenberg

The opportunity ahead of us in terms of transforming how we design and build, how we manufacture, is even greater than some of the product innovation that we're going to bring to the table.

Quotes by Dennis Muilenburg

I have always loved aeroplanes and spacecraft and the design element.

Quotes by Dennis Muilenburg

So much of it is the design of the shot or the motion of the character; it's the work you do so that it has the same things that are in the movie. In just a few frames it's got to communicate something clearly and dramatically.

Quotes by Dennis Muren

Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be.

Quotes by Dennis Conner

So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.

Quotes by Debi Thomas

I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look.

Quotes by Debbie Allen

Visual storytelling combines the narrative text of a story with creative elements to augment and enhance the traditional storytelling process. By design, it is a co-creative process resulting in an intimate, interpretive, expressive technique.

Quotes by Debbie Millman

I often say that 'Design Matters' began in February 2005 with an idea and a telephone line.

Quotes by Debbie Millman

Obama really changed the way in which design can be used effectively for a candidate.

Quotes by Debbie Millman

In design-led organizations, design permeates every initiative and expression. It's embedded in the culture.

Quotes by Debbie Millman

Companies that are design-led understand that design is not a deliverable; it is a profound manifestation of the human spirit.

Quotes by Debbie Millman

I want to design women's clothes just as much as men's clothes.

Quotes by DeAndre Hopkins

I decided to go to school for advertising and graphic design. That was what I was gonna do but acting is that thing, it's like a splinter in your mind and you can't get rid of it. So I decided to move to L.A. a few years ago and it just snowballed into this thing called 'The Hunger Games.'

Quotes by Dayo Okeniyi

I always treat shows as though they could belong on either platform. I always design it for the bigger stage, but I love it on the smaller stage.

Quotes by Dawn Richard

I do not have a history in set design. I have a history in art. I draw. But I learned set design when I couldn't afford to have a team and I didn't want to look like I was indie. I wanted to give fans the visual.

Quotes by Dawn Richard

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