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" As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown. "

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" I'm always up for collaborating with brands and people who actually design, but doing your own line is a whole other beast. I don't think I could deal with the criticism. "

" If I have a style, I am not aware of it. "

" Google has already tested robot cars in San Francisco. If they can navigate San Francisco, they can probably manage just about anywhere. "

" Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design. "

Christopher Alexander

" Intelligent design is consistent with any faith system I can think of, because most faith systems believe that there is a creator. "

" After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them. "

" It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake. "

" The most amazing lesson in aerodynamics I ever had was the day I climbed a thermal in a glider at the same time as an eagle. I witnessed, close up, effortlessness and lightness combined with strength, precision and determination. "

" Design has become a universal medium for expressing ideas, raising fundamental questions, and addressing social challenges. "

Jens Martin Skibsted

" I run a design studio in New York. Every seven years, I close it for one year to pursue some little experiments, things that are always difficult to accomplish during the regular working year. In that year, we are not available for any of our clients. We are totally closed. And as you can imagine, it is a lovely and very energetic time. "

Stefan Sagmeister

" I don't think I have a sense of fashion. But I do have an aesthetic, which I feel is an offshoot of me working in the design industry. For example, if I am mixing and matching prints on my sofas and cushion covers, I tend to do that with my wardrobe as well. "

" To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master. "

" So much of design is context. "

" But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband? "

" Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors. "

George Santayana

" Writing generally, it may be said that in design, roof, and general aspect, Japanese Buddhist temples are all alike. The sacred architectural idea expresses itself in nearly the same form always. "

" My design philosophy is to make women feel like peacocks. "

Matthew Williamson

" With the Larry Bertlemann portrait, I started with a photograph that I could use for it. I built the drawing's identity to serve as a graphic identity. After a number of sketches, I went into my own abstract vernacular of drawn lines and shapes to create the composition for the poster design. "

John Van Hamersveld

" There is artistic beauty to the way biology functions, nature functions, and science functions. I am trying to bring that kind of understanding in the design space. "

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

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

" Apple's Industrial Design team is harder to get into than the Illuminati, and part of the reason is because no one leaves. In the last 15 years, not one of the 18 designers has ditched Apple for greener pastures. "

" It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too. "

" As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called a 'singularity.' "

Stephen Hawking

" 'Intelligent Design,' the relabeled, repackaged form of American creationism, has always had a problem. It just can't seem to produce any evidence. "

Kenneth R. Miller

" I design to make women feel confident and beautiful. "

" I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design. "

Yukihiro Matsumoto

" 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. "

" I'm always drooling over great design, from fashion to furniture. "

Janina Gavankar

" When you buy things that are expensive, like a sofa or something that really feels like an investment, you need to keep it as plain as possible, as simple as possible. Make sure that it's a clean design that will work with whatever style you want it to. "