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" Any design, whether it's for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures. "
Henry Petroski
Ship
Design
Done
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" I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality. "
Marc Newson
Design
Important
Think
" Because every design must satisfy competing objectives, there necessarily has to be compromise among, if not the complete exclusion of, some of those objectives, in order to meet what are considered the more important of them. "
Henry Petroski
Important
Design
Compromise
" By fundamentally changing how we design the places and systems that enable our daily lives, we can slash emissions way beyond the immediate carbon savings - because our own personal emissions are just the tip of a vast iceberg of energy and resources consumed far from our view. "
Alex Steffen
Daily
Way
View
" Fashion fades, only style remains the same. "
Coco Chanel
Same
Only
Fashion
" Design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort so you can get on with the things that matter. "
Donna Karan
Style
Good
Effort
" I don't like the idea that the first preparation when you start to design your building has to put your label. I think this is not fair. It's not fair to the building or to the people, to the client, because every building tells a different story. "
Renzo Piano
Think
Preparation
People
" When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource. "
Biz Stone
Creativity
Design
Perfect
" I believe that human beings are born first and given passports later. I'm really thankful for my journey. And it's a journey I didn't design. "
Alfonso Cuaron
Design
Believe
Thankful
" Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist. "
Terence
You
God
Good
" I had always wanted to expand to beauty, but I knew I wanted to be able to translate my design aesthetic in an authentic way. "
Charlotte Ronson
Always
Way
Design
" Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people. "
Thomas J. Watson
Business
Reflect
People
" It takes a real designer to design for real women. "
Leslie Jones
Real
Takes
Design
" There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space. "
Oscar Niemeyer
Design
You
Reason
" Unlike traditional nursing homes, Green House homes provide elders with a high quality of life and quality of care in a setting that feels like a real home. By altering the facility size, interior design, staffing patterns and service-delivery method, the Green House model provides residents better, safer and more personalized care. "
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
Green
Design
Care
" I've always loved fashion design. I love drawing and creating looks and styling. "
Lily Collins
Design
Loved
Fashion
" America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage. "
Mark McKinnon
America
Back
Design
" I have lived with my husband more than I have with my parents... I live beside him, and know his worries, his hopes, and his dreams for his nation. We believe that things happen by design, not in an arbitrary way. And we believe it is our duty to make things happen. "
Moza bint Nasser
Husband
Believe
Live
" I have always been fascinated by the way things work and how they came to take the form that they did. Writing about these things satisfies my curiosity about the made world while at the same time giving me an opportunity to design a new explanation for the processes that shape it. "
Henry Petroski
Me
Time
Work
" After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them. "
L'Wren Scott
Right
Clothes
Design
" A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and reinforce the structures of urban life. "
Richard Rogers
Land
Best
Focus
" 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. "
Filippo Brunelleschi
Listening
Design
Ready
" Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work. "
Moshe Safdie
Most
Discipline
Design
" There's a perennial debate about whether the propagandistic tripe produced by establishment media outlets is shaped more by evil or by stupidity. Personally, I think it's both: a healthy dose of each is needed. The system design is malicious, while those who serve as its public face are generally vacant. "
Glenn Greenwald
Media
Evil
Think
" I've always wanted to design a Mustang. I just never really had the opportunity in my career because the timing was never right. "
Henrik Fisker
Opportunity
Timing
Career
" Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven. "
Sofia Coppola
Me
Acting
Design
" To take on the jobs of tomorrow, students must become more than good test takers. They need to become makers who design, sketch, build, and prototype. And their classrooms will need more than a chalkboard and a set of textbooks. "
Charles Best
Tomorrow
Design
Good
" I wanted to be a writer as a teen... so storytelling was my first love. In my late teens, design became an obsession as I realized that I could express myself through the medium. Much later, when I founded Fuseproject in 1999, our slogan became 'design brings stories to life.' "
Yves Behar
Love
Life
Myself
" 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. "
Francis Collins
Design
Intelligent
Natural
" I tell my workshop students, 'I want you to think of yourselves as artists. Then, when you're writing, you're painting, you're crafting, you're making a design, you're sculpting, you're creating choreography, sound, a sound script.' "
Juan Felipe Herrera
Design
Painting
You
" Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good. "
Clement Mok
Business
Looking
Good