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" You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one. "

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" I would like to design what people generally call streetwear. I'd like to dress skateboarders, or whatever the older equivalent of skateboarders are. I pay more attention to that stuff than anyone would ever imagine because I'm watching what the designers do. "

" My inspiration for interior design is more historical than traditional. "

" Companies that are design-led understand that design is not a deliverable; it is a profound manifestation of the human spirit. "

" Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality. "

" 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. "

" I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world. "

" To me, 'design thinking' is another way of saying empathize with the customer. It's consideration for the person you're designing for. "

" 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. "

" Your neighbors will be envious of your 3D printer - and if they're not, just print new neighbors. Design them so they'll like to bring you pies, maybe, or want to do your yard work for you. "

W. Bruce Cameron

" I think when people have the freedom to tell their own story rather than trying to be specific to a certain design or style, there's more freedom, and it ends up feeling more like home. Those spaces we see in magazines and on the Internet are beautiful, but if there's not that story there, then it's going to lack that feeling of home. "

" 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? "

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

" I describe the design process as like the tip of the iceberg. What you don't see is the long haul: all the endless auditing and things like that. "

" I love everything I design. "

Emilia Wickstead

" I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today. "

" Design and branding are inextricably linked to the way in which society, culture, the environment, and business interact. "

" I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality. "

Vivienne Westwood

" Good design should be available to everyone - and I do mean everyone. What I spent on the wheelchair I'm in could buy a small Mercedes. It's not only unfair to me; it's unfair to someone who's indigent but has the same needs. My goal is to make all objects affordable. "

" 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. "

" We started Airbnb because, like many across the U.S. and in New York, we were struggling to pay our rent and decided to open up our living room to fellow artists coming to town for a design conference. Sharing our apartment allowed us to stay in our home and start our company. "

" My autumn/winter 2011-12 collection embodies the bold and beautiful while reflecting an innovative style and passion for immaculate design. I believe that this collection radiates modern femininity and beauty in its purest form. "

Emilia Wickstead

" If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. "

" Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society. "

" I love cities, I spend most of my life talking about cities. And the design of cities does have an effect on your life. You're lucky if you can see trees out of your window and you have a square nearby, or a bar, a cornershop, a surgery. Then you're living well. "

" I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response. "

" We have the largest digital design studio in the world. "

Pierre Nanterme

" A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have. "

" A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker. "

" When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen. "

Narciso Rodriguez

" CSS is the design language of the web, and it is not as easy to use as it ought to be, and it can be confusing, especially if you are new to it. "

Jeffrey Zeldman