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" I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure. "

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" We opened a design center in the South of England last year as part of our strategy for being close to our customers and developing innovative products for exciting new markets. "

" I'm a perfectionist. And that's served me very well in my career. It allows me to handle these large, complex problems without letting things fall through the cracks... That is the mentality you have to have to attack these complex problems of chip design, for example, when you're overwhelmed with complexity. "

" I am a fashion designer. I'm not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning, number one I'm a mother and a wife, and number two I design clothes. So the main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer. "

Stella McCartney

" If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that - they are all under a similar kind of design umbrella. "

" If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers. "

" Is there a way to design a room in my house where I float around? I would quite enjoy that. It's nuts. "

" We look at life from the back side of the tapestry. And most of the time, what we see is loose threads, tangled knots and the like. But occasionally, God's light shines through the tapestry, and we get a glimpse of the larger design with God weaving together the darks and lights of existence. "

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

William Butler Yeats

" An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service. "

Daniel J. Boorstin

" I'm a fashion designer, not a shoe designer. I like to design clothes. "

Dries van Noten

" No one ever contributed anything to my designs. "

" There are usually three sections of people who like my work. There are those who like them aesthetically. They see beauty in the images. Second, there are those who like the horror aspect, which is by design, and I like that. Third, there are those who are moved by the historical or political nature of them. They want to talk about them. "

" The details are not the details. They make the design. "

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

" Hip-hop and electronic music are so similar, in the fact that they're both very visceral, have so much bass; a lot of times, it's the same tempos. The culture and some of the sound design is different but a lot of times, it's the same stuff. "

" I'm interested in technology for the masses. Good tech design should not just be for enthusiasts but for the general public. It should be something that touches everyone. "

" Internet safety begins at home and that is why my legislation would require the Federal Trade Commission to design and publish a unique website to serve as a clearinghouse and resource for parents, teachers and children for information on the dangers of surfing the Internet. "

Mike Fitzpatrick

" Each season I strive to design a forward-thinking and effortless collection with a very clean minimalist aesthetic. "

Francisco Costa

" We don't design by calculator or by demographics or anything like that. We really are a group of creative, sensitive people. We have our charmed little world where we get to make things. We're really lucky. "

" I design for the woman who loves being a woman. "

Diane von Furstenberg

" I went to high school in Ellicott City, Maryland, and I felt pretty ambivalent about the whole thing. It just took time away from my doing things on the Internet - like creating clans in Quake II or starting a Web design nonprofit. In school, I was just a kid. Online, I had authority. "

" 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. "

" Urban planning and design are helping us to shift from a car-centric system to a bike-centric one by making bicycles and bicycle infrastructure superior in functionality and attractiveness. "

Jens Martin Skibsted

" I like to work in a small team. There is only 18 of us on the design team. Nobody has ever left. "

" There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the challenges facing our cities or to the housing crisis, but the two issues need to be considered together. From an urban design and planning point of view, the well-connected open city is a powerful paradigm and an engine for integration and inclusivity. "

" I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality. "

" 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. "

" In fashion, my inspiration comes from pop culture - the 1960s and the following years. Whereas in interior design, my influences are much broader. "

" All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations. "