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" I don't design houses with the nuclear family idea because I don't believe in it as a concept. "

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" Design-wise, I look at everything. If I don't personally design it, I'll review it. I'm kind of creative director of the firm. "

" The stylish kids on the street, they're the ones that set the trends. The designers see what they're doing and go and design their line and sell it back to the same kids, and it's like, why not go directly to the source? "

" It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression. "

" Integrating breakthrough technology into everyday products is always a challenge; at the same time, this is exactly how design makes tech products easily adoptable in life. "

" Design is how you make your first impression with your consumers. Make sure it is a lasting one. "

First Impression

" About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs. "

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

" The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share. "

" One of the things that is particularly precious about working at Apple is that many of us on the design team have worked together for 15-plus years, and there's a wonderful thing about learning as a group. A fundamental part of that is making mistakes together. "

" 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

" 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. "

" I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots. "

" You can't have a single design for all cities. The look and feel of the streetlights are very important. "

Frans van Houten

" 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

" Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive; you will be able to design a house together with your family; a garden for your children; places where you can work; beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream. "

Christopher Alexander

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" Design is an unknown. "

" I would like to design what people generally call streetwear. I'd like to dress skateboarders, or whatever the older equivalent of skateboarders are. I pay more attention to that stuff than anyone would ever imagine because I'm watching what the designers do. "

" Design is people. "

" Health care is a design problem. Dependence on foreign oil is a design problem. To some extent, poverty is a design problem. We need design thinkers to solve those problems, and most people who are in positions of political power are not design thinkers, to put it mildly. "

" 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. "

" The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff. "

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

Matthew Williamson

" I weirdly love interior design and real estate and all of that. I really do. I get chills from it. "

" I would never live in anything I design. Life and art are different. My life is very precious to me - my art is precious to me. I love designing things for other people, but I don't like designing things for myself. "

" If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk. "

" I have a company that does design and animation, so obviously graffiti is definitely an intricate part of what we admire and respect in the art world. "

" Agriculture as we know it needs to disappear. We can design better and healthier proteins than we get from nature. "