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" Obama really changed the way in which design can be used effectively for a candidate. "
Debbie Millman
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" 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
" 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. "
Yves Behar
Knowledge
Business
Design
" When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that,' we say 'Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?' Few are up to the task. "
Yves Behar
Ready
Say
Want
" Design can overcome our most deeply rooted stranger-danger bias. "
Joe Gebbia
Bias
Design
Most
" I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation. "
Pharrell Williams
Speak
Ideas
Funny
" Everything we do is designed, whether we're producing a magazine, a website, or a bridge. Design is really the creative invention that designs everything. "
Henry Petroski
Design
Website
Bridge
" We tell stories with maps about global warming, biodiversity; we can design more livable cities, track the spread of epidemics. That makes a difference. "
Jack Dangermond
Maps
Global Warming
Difference
" I used to design for my body, which was flat-chested with big hips. That's why my clothes were tight on top with full skirts. "
Betsey Johnson
Body
Why
Used
" When I design and wonder what the point is, I think of someone having a bad time in their life. Maybe they are sad and they wake up and put on something I have made and it makes them feel just a bit better. So, in that sense, fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But only a little. "
Miuccia Prada
Fashion
Think
Time
" The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence. "
Olivier Theyskens
Good
Design
People
" 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
" To design something really new and innovative you have to reject reason. "
Jonathan Ive
You
New
Design
" Substance over style is the rule for all resumes. Any special effects will dilute the gravitas and stature of the impression. You want people to concentrate on your accomplishments and your successes, not the curlicues of a font or unusual shades or contrast of colors. "
Debbie Millman
Colors
Special
Style
" I grew up in a small town in Washington State, so I wasn't really aware of costume design as a career growing up, but I loved clothes. I remember I saved all my money, and the first thing that I bought was a white blazer, which was to the horror to my parents. But I have always had a strange connection with clothing. "
Colleen Atwood
Loved
Small
Parents
" There is artistic beauty to the way biology functions, nature functions, and science functions. I am trying to bring that kind of understanding in the design space. "
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Nature
Space
Science
" Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish. "
Billy Graham
Research
Faith
Religion
" The emphasis on innovation and technology in our companies has resulted in a few of them establishing global benchmarks in product design and development, manufacturing practices and human resource capabilities. However, there is no room for complacency. "
Baba Kalyani
Innovation
Human
Design
" Sometimes living in a room that's badly designed isn't the worst thing in the world. Trust me - this is a fact! Living in a room that has no design whatsoever is even worse. I've learned this from my many clients over the years that have moved into new houses and just can't figure out where to begin. "
Candice Olson
Worst
World
Design
" Apple's goal isn't to make money. Our goal is to design and develop and bring to market good products. "
Jonathan Ive
Good
Bring
Goal
" Everything at Apple can be best understood through the lens of designing. Whether it's designing the look and feel of the user experience, or the industrial design, or the system design, and even things like how the boards were laid out. "
John Sculley
Apple
Look
Experience
" We call the fates of the Titanic and the Concordia - as well as those of the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia - 'accidents.' Foreseeing such undesirable events is what engineers are expected to do. However, design trade-offs leave technological systems open to failings once predicted, but later forgotten. "
Henry Petroski
Engineers
Design
Space
" Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical. "
Victor Papanek
Must
Design
Radical
" I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look. "
Debbie Allen
Want
Camera
Design
" Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it. "
Pierre Bonnard
Quality
Pleasant
Design
" 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. "
David McFadden
Important
Environment
Design
" Everything we design is a response to the specific climate and culture of a particular place. "
Norman Foster
Design
Place
Culture
" Design our world so that we have positive social and environmental side effects. "
Bjarke Ingels
Design
World
Environmental
" Fashion and interior design are one and the same. "
Iris Apfel
Interior
Design
Fashion
" If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls. "
Guido van Rossum
Language
Design
Decide
" There are two main methodologies of open source development. There's the Apache model, which is design by committee - great for things like web servers. Then you have the benevolent dictator model. That's what Ubuntu is doing, with Mark Shuttleworth. "
Matt Mullenweg
Development
Design
You