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" 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. "
Marilyn French
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Fix
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" I design for the use of a building and the place and for the people who use it... the reputation for arrogance comes because when work is offered to me, I look whether I can find a genuine interest in quality. "
Peter Zumthor
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Reputation
" I really don't over-theorize about design. I'd rather feel it than talk it to death. A lot happens as you unroll the design. "
Colleen Atwood
Death
Happens
Talk
" 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
" The only important thing about design is how it relates to people. "
Victor Papanek
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How
" Design and branding are inextricably linked to the way in which society, culture, the environment, and business interact. "
Debbie Millman
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Design
Way
" We are spiritual beings whether we want to admit it or not, and inherent in our DNA is a design to return us home - home to our true essence, our greatest self, our limitless self. "
Debbie Ford
True
Home
Design
" There's a simple arithmetical logic at work. Build more unaffordable and not always architecturally sympathetic apartments, watch the rents rise, the tarts leave, the small shops, production offices and design studios close down, and hey presto, we have another fashionable London suburb indistinguishable from the rest. "
Howard Jacobson
Rise
Rest
Small
" 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
" Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relevance is just as important. I often say, 'If it isn't ethical, it can't be beautiful. But if it isn't beautiful, it probably shouldn't be at all.' "
Yves Behar
Important
Design
Beautiful
" My design philosophy is to make women feel like peacocks. "
Matthew Williamson
Feel
Women
Design
" I wanted to be a sneaker designer since I was 10; it was my dream to work at Nike and design signature shoes for Michael Jordan and Penny Hardaway. When it was time to select high schools, I wanted to go to one that would help me get a jump-start on my dream. "
Kerby Jean-Raymond
Design
Me
Help
" Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended. "
Raymond Loewy
Design
Black
Good
" I feel like the business side came more naturally to me along with the product design side, but managing and effectively leading large organizations of people is something that is perpetually challenging and the topic on which I am constantly looking for good advice. "
Stewart Butterfield
I Am
People
Looking
" While 'The Endless Summer' poster was designed at the Art Center College of Design in the contemporary style of its time, the image grew out of my relationship with Rick Griffin and our deep relationship to surf images. "
John Van Hamersveld
Style
Time
Art
" Is there a way to design a room in my house where I float around? I would quite enjoy that. It's nuts. "
Karl Lagerfeld
" Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department. "
Tom Peters
Meeting
Single
Should
" 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. "
Henry Samueli
Fall
Problems
Career
" I design for the woman who loves being a woman. "
Diane von Furstenberg
Being
Loves
Who
" 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. "
John Katzman
Planning
Design
Building
" As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called a 'singularity.' "
Stephen Hawking
Design
Intelligence
Good
" There are lots of examples of routine, middle-skilled jobs that involve relatively structured tasks, and those are the jobs that are being eliminated the fastest. Those kinds of jobs are easier for our friends in the artificial intelligence community to design robots to handle them. They could be software robots; they could be physical robots. "
Erik Brynjolfsson
Friends
Community
Intelligence
" I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff. "
Prabal Gurung
Furniture
Design
Stuff
" 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. "
Seph Lawless
Nature
Political
Work
" Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works. "
Steve Jobs
Design
You
Think
" 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
Design
Work
You
" 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
I Am
Mother
Wife
" There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few. "
Victor Papanek
More
Than
Industrial
" Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment. "
Patrick Lencioni
Disappointment
Design
Trying
" The real opportunity is to harness the inventive power of the world to locally design and produce solutions to local problems. "
Neil Gershenfeld
Power
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Problems
" It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too. "
Robert Scoble
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