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" When writing for the page, the focus is on the design - how the words appear on the page. I try to make it as direct and simple as possible. "

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" 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 often say that 'Design Matters' began in February 2005 with an idea and a telephone line. "

" It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design. "

" One thing about costume design - and I think design in general - but especially costume design, is people have a misconception that it's very glamorous work. "

" Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall or recite them when something in a new design or design process is suggestive of what went wrong in the case study. "

" It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out. "

" 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. "

" Surprisingly, the Eisenhower Memorial design contains almost none of the known Gehry-box of tricks. His giant etched chain-link curtain, first applied in 1979 to hide an ungracious parking garage at Santa Monica Place, is resurrected for Eisenhower to screen the equally graceless facade of the Department of Education. "

" 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

" Obamacare's design flaws were not the fault of the American people. "

" Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection. "

" I love doing fittings and seeing women look really confident in their clothes because they're not wearing something too boxy but that really shows off their figures. Everybody has a different figure - it's important to design for different shapes. "

Emilia Wickstead

" Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it. "

" I design music; I don't produce it. "

" 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

" I'd love to design a school. "

" Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions. "

" Some people said, 'Oh you're going to become a fine artist now and do exhibits and stuff.' But I have no desire to do that. I really like design and I'm going to stay with it. "

Stefan Sagmeister

" The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution. "

" 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. "

" Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long. "

" I don't design houses with the nuclear family idea because I don't believe in it as a concept. "

" 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?' "

" It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too. "

" As a director, I design every movie to be true to itself, and damn it if they like it, and damn it if they don't. "

Guillermo del Toro

" I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment. "

" When he entered the Oval Office - by fate, not by design - Citizen Ford knew that he was not perfect, just as he knew he was not perfect when he left. But what president ever was? "

" Whether one believes in evolution, intelligent design, or Divine Creation, one thing is certain. Since the beginning of history, human beings have been at war with each other, under the pretext of religion, ideology, ethnicity and other reasons. And no civilization has ever willingly given up its most powerful weapons. "

Mohamed ElBaradei

" I've been thinking a lot about the journey of my parents - just seeing the sacrifices they've made to allow me to do what I do. How much of a difference their sacrifices have made through the generations. "

" The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design. "