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" It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people. "
Genevieve Gorder
Power
Money
Stupid
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" I want to have all that scientific information that we're building be used in designing the future so that people who make geographic decisions - and here it's not just land-use planners, but it's everyone: foresters, transportation engineers, people who buy a house - can analyze all of these information layers and design a future. "
Jack Dangermond
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People
" Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design. "
Anton Corbijn
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Music
Design
" I often read nonfiction with a pencil in hand. I love the feel, the smell, the design, the weight of a book, but I also enjoy the convenience of my Kindle - for travel and for procuring a book in seconds. "
Drew Gilpin Faust
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" Juicero is the first company to make cold-pressed juice something that people can make themselves at home. The challenges to design and engineer a press that can deliver 8,000 pounds of force are tremendous. "
Yves Behar
Juice
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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. "
Paul Sabatier
He
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" Any design, whether it's for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures. "
Henry Petroski
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Design
Done
" Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies. "
Tahl Raz
Late
Aesthetic
Art
" I had given a presentation on design and happiness for quite a long while at design conferences. I had found thinking about the topic helpful for my own practice, as it forced me to consider the fundamentals, and the feedback from the audience was always enthusiastic. "
Stefan Sagmeister
Long
Thinking
Practice
" God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him. "
Mary Astell
Design
End
Own
" 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. "
Henry Petroski
Important
Design
Compromise
" People interact with their phones very differently than they do with their PCs, and I think that when you design from the ground up with mobile in mind, you create a very different product than going the other way. "
Kevin Systrom
Design
Think
You
" The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years. "
Bill Gates
Time
Company
Design
" The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have. "
Tadao Ando
Detail
Kind
Know
" I like to work in a small team. There is only 18 of us on the design team. Nobody has ever left. "
Jonathan Ive
Nobody
Work
Design
" My job at the end of the day is to design timeless, desirable, beautiful products. It's not about just designing a bunch of organic jumpers. I have a balance within the brand. If you try to create something people enjoy, and it happens to be made in a responsible way, then that's when you can really strike an incredible balance. "
Stella McCartney
Balance
Beautiful
People
" You can't have a single design for all cities. The look and feel of the streetlights are very important. "
Frans van Houten
Design
Important
Look
" If you have total freedom to design, you won't get anything interesting. So I give myself restraints in order to kind of push myself through, to create something new. It's the torture that I give myself, the pain and the struggle that I go through. "
Rei Kawakubo
Freedom
Pain
Myself
" My own style is pretty classic; I much prefer to design for others. "
Colleen Atwood
My Own
Much
Design
" I like entertainment and think mastery is good, though I don't feel like a master. If a theme means having a story that's legible, then that's certainly what we do. But we don't treat design as an add-on layer. "
David Rockwell
Think
Story
Feel
" A shoe is not only a design, but it's a part of your body language, the way you walk. The way you're going to move is quite dictated by your shoes. "
Christian Louboutin
Design
You
Walk
" As a visual person, I love a creative resume. Putting in a little effort on the design side will show that you care about making things look good. "
Sophia Amoruso
Good
Effort
Care
" A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and reinforce the structures of urban life. "
Richard Rogers
Land
Best
Focus
" When I was about 13, I met the coolest, chicest young woman I had ever seen. She was a neighbor of mine who became a fashion designer and had a small design studio. She taught me so many things about style and fashion. I had always loved making things, so when she told me about her career in fashion, I knew I had found my path. "
Narciso Rodriguez
Style
Woman
Small
" 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. "
Trent Reznor
Design
Down
Game
" I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing. "
Chris Kirkpatrick
Creating
Nothing
Like
" 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? "
Rihanna
Street
Stylish
Back
" 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. "
Peter Zumthor
Life
Son
School
" As for design, I gravitate to traditional styles but mix it with an element of surprise. Whether it's a big sash bow in the back or an unexpected fabric, it all needs to work together. "
Emilia Wickstead
Unexpected
Together
Surprise
" Hey, I'm a good software engineer, but I'm not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and sandals don't translate to 'good design sense'. "
Linus Torvalds
Design
Socks
Fashion
" My design process never starts or finishes. I am always hoping to find something through the mere act of living my daily life. I do not work from a desk and do not have an exact starting point for any collection. "
Rei Kawakubo
Life
Daily Life
Daily