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" I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral. "

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" Design is people. "

" Any product that needs a manual to work is broken. "

" What I love most about Her Majesty is that she has kept hats alive in people's minds for more than 60 years. You can't think of her without imagining her with a hat or a crown. I would, of course, love to design one for her. "

" You cannot not know history. "

" The beauty of the Stir It Up lies in its ecological balance. We're bringing high quality, earth-friendly materials together with innovative design. The result is powerful sound and a stylish look for the new turntable. "

" Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution. "

Ivan Chermayeff

" 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. "

" I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive. "

Joseph Lancaster

" Processionalism is primary - how you get from one place to another, the relationships and effects of spaces as you move about in them. That's worked out awfully well in the State Theater. I'm a 'straight-in' man myself; I'm too nervous, I like to know where I am. I also like to know where I'm going. "

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

" 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. "

" I think it's very common that scientists or technical people have an artistic side. Sometimes they are very accomplished musicians. Sometimes they have very fine tastes according to art or design. And often, they've spent a big chunk of their childhood or they're growing-up years trying to get in very good at those activities. "

" I have been wildly enthused about gaming since I was younger, and a career path I chose not to go down but did really consider was getting into programming and game design. "

" Practically, systemic thinking can be used to identify problems, analyze their boundaries, design strategies and policy interventions, forecast and measure their expected impacts, implement them, and monitor and evaluate their successes and failures. "

" In software design, it's all about making a guess, trying it, and then learning from the experience. "

Stewart Butterfield

" I love Janet Jackson and her creative set design. "

" There's so many ways of making product design easier, more efficient, quicker. People are now taking DNA from cows and growing leather. The implications of that, in what it has from a grain standpoint, are enormous. "

" Any design, whether it's for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures. "

" Once you come up with a premise, you have to work out how it all happened. It's a bit like coming up with a spectacular roof design first. Before you can get it up there, you need to build a solid foundation and supporting structure. "

Linwood Barclay

" I design for the movie and the character as well as the person wearing the costume. I show the ideas to the actor, then do fittings for shape and technical things such as movement in the costume. Once the costume in this form is on the actor, you have a sense of their connection with it. I then take it to the next level with the final fit. "

" In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone. "

" My strengths as a businessman lie in the design and sale of women's shoes, and I have never been comfortable with complicated or technical legal or business documents. "

" I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object. "

" Design our world so that we have positive social and environmental side effects. "

" To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own. "

" I often ask myself, 'What would design be like if objects were made of a single part? Would we return to a better state of creation?' "

" The dreaded phrase in design circles is 'show and tell.' "

" To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons. "

" How do you convince somebody to host a stranger for the weekend? That's not a trivial thing. It's not something I think you can throw technology at, marketing at, or sales at. We threw design at it because that's all we knew, and in doing so, I feel like we brought a human touch to it, which is so needed. "

" Peter Fleming was a famous English traveler, explorer and adventurer, whose non-fiction books were hugely successful. My father owned signed copies of all of them - he and Peter Fleming had become acquainted over some detail of set design at the Korda film studio in Shepperton - and I had read each of them with breathless adolescent excitement. "