Design Quotes

The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence.

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.

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

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

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

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

The big difference between couture and ready-to-wear is not design. It is the fabrics, the handwork, and the fittings. The act of creation is the same.

I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

I'm not into fashion, but I like design. I wear the same shoes every day.

There are two methods in software design. One is to make the program so simple, there are obviously no errors. The other is to make it so complicated, there are no obvious errors.

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

Gucci is not a fashion or a design house, it was always a trademark.

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.