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" You can't have a single design for all cities. The look and feel of the streetlights are very important. "

Frans van Houten

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" In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good. "

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

" I love every period in design history. Even the ugly ones. "

Catherine Martin

" In our interconnected world, novel technology could empower just one fanatic, or some weirdo with a mindset of those who now design computer viruses, to trigger some kind of disaster. Indeed, catastrophe could arise simply from technical misadventure - error rather than terror. "

" We don't design by calculator or by demographics or anything like that. We really are a group of creative, sensitive people. We have our charmed little world where we get to make things. We're really lucky. "

" Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance. "

" It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake. "

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" It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion. "

" I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings. "

Daniel Libeskind

" I went to high school in Ellicott City, Maryland, and I felt pretty ambivalent about the whole thing. It just took time away from my doing things on the Internet - like creating clans in Quake II or starting a Web design nonprofit. In school, I was just a kid. Online, I had authority. "

" Design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort so you can get on with the things that matter. "

" It's fashionable to use terms like 'sales funnels' to describe the sales process for many companies, and it is true that the funnel design is very appropriate for the digital world, but despite all the prose written on sales funnels and the like, my question is still the same - when do you close your sales, and how long does that take? "

Michael E. Gerber

" 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. "

" 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

" Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. "

" The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it. "

" There are two kinds of designers: ones who are very happy locked in their office surrounded by their coterie. The last thing they need to do is to go to a trunk show; they'd go running for the hills. I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it? "

" Even before I was discovered in 1966, I used to make my own clothes. I learned how to sew early on, and it's still my passion now. I constantly have ideas in my head about clothes so jumped at the chance to do my own collection and am very hands-on. Everything I design, I wear and I love. "

" Anyone with a computer and a design program can create a page layout. But unless you're trained in design, it won't look very good and it won't communicate very well. "

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" Everything else - music, cinematography, costumes, design, acting - can be judged at face value. But when you're looking at editing, you don't know what the totality of the material was, and you don't know the working dynamic between a director and an editor - whether the editor was micromanaged or given free rein. It's very difficult. "

Christopher Rouse

" Even though we live in a fast-changing world with short term-ism all around, it requires years of determination to transform a company and structurally reap the rewards. Innovation companies need to set their sights on solving unmet needs - but this approach requires focus and long-term tenacity. "

Frans van Houten

" There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is you need economies of scale. The other is you need to iterate on the design. You need to go through a few versions. "

" Compassion, together with contractual responsibility for one's workforce, is a mark of a top employer. "

Frans van Houten