Design Quotes

I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.

Women have their own strengths, like fashion. In technology, we can contribute in a big way in terms of the design of the user interface.

The world is not to be approached, blueprint in hand, as if it were so much raw material waiting to be fashioned to someone's design.

My earliest interest in game design came when I was in primary school, and my parents bought a Commodore 128 computer. I taught myself to write programs in BASIC, and then I made my own games.

Unlike traditional nursing homes, Green House homes provide elders with a high quality of life and quality of care in a setting that feels like a real home. By altering the facility size, interior design, staffing patterns and service-delivery method, the Green House model provides residents better, safer and more personalized care.

From time to time, I've experimented with sculpture or metal design. It's a good break from just sitting behind the keyboard.

If you're a devoted collector of design, you seek out objects you can love to live with but also live in.

God is not an American. Nature did not design Americans to be prosperous forever.

I couldn't write a happy movie or romantic comedy to save my life. Yes, Noel Coward's an idol, but his plays are serious to me. 'Private Lives' and 'Design for Living' both have an edge. Without psychoanalyzing myself, I think I exorcise my demons in my work.

'LaFerrari' means 'the Ferrari.' The excellence. In this car, we put everything we are able to do. Our extreme technology, extreme experience, extreme capability. And this has been the first Ferrari totally designed in our design center.

The genius idea of industrialism was the concept of the Model T: In exchange for something cheap and well-made, we'd forgo unique, lovely design.

Minted.com is both a global design community and stationery retailer. Independent graphic designers from all over the world submit designs to our ongoing design competitions, and Minted's community votes to tell us what to sell.

Over the years, I observed that many talented graphic designers, including those in my own family, had difficulty getting their designs to market. I thought it would be possible to hold open stationery design competitions where all designers could participate.

The name Minted speaks to the freshness of our design - the fact that we are receiving thousands of new designs each week and selling freshly minted winners from our design competitions.

All of the designs on Minted are crowd-sourced from a global community of independent designers. We hold monthly design and art challenges that anyone in the world is welcome to enter.

I don't design for myself. I design something keeping in mind that it has to please a lot of women.

I'm a fashion designer, not a shoe designer. I like to design clothes.

If I weren't involved with food, I'd be working in architecture. Design is that critical to me.

By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.

The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years.