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" I love cities, I spend most of my life talking about cities. And the design of cities does have an effect on your life. You're lucky if you can see trees out of your window and you have a square nearby, or a bar, a cornershop, a surgery. Then you're living well. "

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" Some people said, 'Oh you're going to become a fine artist now and do exhibits and stuff.' But I have no desire to do that. I really like design and I'm going to stay with it. "

Stefan Sagmeister

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" The Peninsula - it's a combination of great service and good design. "

" I have the same sense of discovery and exhilaration from objects of design and everyday use - I am inspired by the buildings in my city, by park greenery and dazzling store windows, by the jaunty strollers and umbrellas and billboards I walk past. Just strolling our streets, we encounter creativity every single day. "

" 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. "

" Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God's divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego's insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you. "

" I've always loved fashion design. I love drawing and creating looks and styling. "

" You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one. "

" For contemporary fashion, I'm a huge fan of so many of the people out there. I think Azzedine Alaia holds up through three generations of very specific, beautiful design. I think Jean Paul Gaultier also is very interesting with a long span. "

" But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs. "

" I studied to be an architect. And I find tremendous similarities between building a company and the design process. Businesses have to do their planning on the fly in a fashion similar to an architect sketching. "

" What I learned from my years in Silicon Valley is that design can have a primary role in how a business is shaped, how a company can be design-driven. In my experience of large industry in Europe, that knowledge has been lost. "

" I've learned a tremendous amount over the years by watching designers work. I now have a good understanding of what sits well on the body, not to mention the importance of a great cut and quality. "

" My vision is the ability to design clothes for a man who wants to create his own style and doesn't want to dress like he's in uniform, to look like the guy in the ad, or to feel like he has to put it together that way. "

" A great dream of mine would be to run a design studio full of scientists who think about science as creatively as if they were doing art. "

" What people respond to in my room makeovers is the daring design - fearless colors, bold fabrics and occasionally outlandish decor. "

" My parents always told me that nothing was impossible. "

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

" The opportunity ahead of us in terms of transforming how we design and build, how we manufacture, is even greater than some of the product innovation that we're going to bring to the table. "

" You can almost say that a design error is a human error because, after all, it's we humans who do the designing. "

" Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall or recite them when something in a new design or design process is suggestive of what went wrong in the case study. "

" Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such. "

" Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work. "

" I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side. "

" Does anyone recall hippies designing things for Generation X? Does anyone recall the elegance of that? How design was about making things simpler? "

" 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. "

" Modern design becomes the eye catcher because it's out of context, it is something newborn and fresh, something people have never seen before. I mean, that in itself is the way we should sort of stimulate the senses of society, this urban condition. "

" It's easy to design expensive products. But there's that product democracy that I believe very strongly in to make something affordable for almost anybody that would want to use it. "