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" Design shouldn't have to take a backseat to sustainability and making things responsibly. "

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" Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he has every right to discard for another one, of improved design, after the harvest. "

" As a director, I design every movie to be true to itself, and damn it if they like it, and damn it if they don't. "

Guillermo del Toro

" Could we design an all-glass building with internal channels and networks for airflow and water circulation? Can we surpass the great modern tradition of discrete formal and functional partitions and generate an all-in-one building skin? "

" One of my most memorable moments serving the community was after I built the Live Civil Playground in Haiti, and I visited an orphanage and gave away shoes to all the kids. I also sat with them and helped them design their shoes. The smiles on their faces were priceless. "

" At the OECD, we stand ready to continue to help our member and partner countries to design, promote, and implement Better Policies for Better Lives. "

Jose Angel Gurria

" We have achieved tremendous success in Ireland and internationally on the strength of our creativity and design skills. "

" The difference between good design and great design is intelligence. "

" I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design. "

" I design from instinct. It's the only way I know how to live. What feels good. What feels right. What is needed. Give me a problem and I will approach it creatively, from my gut. "

" Eight years of work can be copied in six months. It wasn't inevitable that it was going to work. A stolen design is stolen time. "

" It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe. "

" The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis. "

Lawrence M. Krauss

" Design is inherently optimistic. That is its power. "

William McDonough

" The proper study of mankind is the science of design. "

" If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively, then the design strategy is flawed. "

" I worked in fashion, but I worked more in the sales side of fashion than in design. I was an assistant buyer for a department store back in the '70s and the early years of Saint Laurent. And I used to have a lot of private clients that I bought for. "

" The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me being the eldest son, I had to take over his shop, his profession and so on and so on. I tried to escape by going to art school and then going on to industrial design and then interior design. "

" We started Airbnb because, like many across the U.S. and in New York, we were struggling to pay our rent and decided to open up our living room to fellow artists coming to town for a design conference. Sharing our apartment allowed us to stay in our home and start our company. "

" Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended. "

" Technology's related to everything. Technology is making the world more accessible, so yeah, as generations go by, they'll become more and more married to each other, for sure. I think they go hand in hand - fashion inspires design, and technology inspires design as well. "

Justin Timberlake

" So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward. "

Genevieve Gorder

" Good design doesn't date. Bad design does. "

" I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in. "

" I always tried to design something new and of the moment. The idea was not to make something that would last, but to make something a woman could really wear when she needed it, like a good friend. "

Pauline Trigere

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I was in the National Academy of Fine Arts and Design, on a scholarship. I was - still am - an artist. They were looking for an actor for 'Take a Giant Step,' and a producer liked my look and asked if I could act. I said, 'Yep!' Then I got into acting more or less just to make money for paints and canvases. "

Billy Dee Williams

" I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation. "

Pharrell Williams

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

" Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one. "