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" Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department. "

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Drew Gilpin Faust

" Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se. "

" Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live. "

" I always wanted to be a filmmaker and became one through sheer single-mindedness. I came to filmmaking from a background in graphic design. I went to film school at Newcastle Polytechnic. "

" Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature. "

" Design, refine and repeat, and keep learning all the way along. It sounds bland and pedestrian, but in fact, it's the reverse. "

" As the Industrial Age is drawing to a close, I think that we're witnessing the dawn of the era of biological design. "

" Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to. "

" Every year, my boys and I create new cool gift wrap paper. We hand paint the design and come up with interesting ways to wrap each gift. "

Kelly Wearstler

" 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. "

Erik Brynjolfsson

" I have never followed fashion. What is fashion to me? I just think of things that inspire me, that inspire women, and I design that way. "

" Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones. "

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

" When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken. "

Cameron Sinclair

" I truly believe that we're about to enter a second golden age of design. The first one was in the '50s and '60s, when designers like Raymond Loewy, Charles Eames, George Nelson and Dieter Rams were shepherds of the brands they were working with. They had influence over the products and how companies communicated and promoted themselves. "

" Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste. "

William Butler Yeats

" We tell stories with maps about global warming, biodiversity; we can design more livable cities, track the spread of epidemics. That makes a difference. "

Jack Dangermond

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection. "

" 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. "

" My focus is incredibly narrow. I can't talk with any authority other than design and development of product. "

" They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese. "

Christian Lacroix

" I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment. "

" At Stanford, we teach 'design thinking' - that is, we put together small, interdisciplinary groups to figure out what the true needs are and then to apply the art of engineering to serve them. "

" 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. "

Emilia Wickstead

" The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants. "

" I describe the design process as like the tip of the iceberg. What you don't see is the long haul: all the endless auditing and things like that. "

" Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist. "

" If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. "