Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

All too much of the man-made is ugly, inefficient, depressing chaos.

As designers, we have a great responsibility.

Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role.

I am not an early bird. I go to bed normally between midnight and 1 o'clock, so it is understandable that I cannot be an early bird. I wake up around 9 o'clock.

I believe designers should eliminate the unnecessary. That means eliminating everything that is modish because this kind of thing is only short-lived.

I don't like computers. I still like to do my drawings by hand.

I like to be in New York. Le Corbusier described it in the 1930s as a 'wonderful catastrophe.' It is still a wonderful catastrophe, but inspiring.

I sit, I think, I make some drawings. As a designer, you cannot retire totally.

Not the spectacular things are the important things - the unspectacular things are the important things, especially in the future.

Products have to be designed in a way that they are comprehensible.

Quiet is better than loud.

There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.

One of the most significant design principles is to omit the unimportant in order to emphasize the important.

Good design emphasises the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.

Good design is long lasting It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated.

The design should make the product speak to you.

Good design is thorough down to the last detail.

Good design is thorough down to the last detail - Nothing must be arbitrary or left to chance. Care and accuracy in the design process show respect towards the consumer.

It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.

One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.

We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world.

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus in on the band, but instead focused in on a theme.

It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.

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

Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated.

We want people to realize you are at a design school, not a land grant college. The way we look says a great deal about who we are.

In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.

Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.

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.

Good design is good business.

It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.

If we don't have accurate information, if we are not able to tell difficult truth one to another, we will never be able to effectively design a policy for Iraq.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive.

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

By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.

Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do.

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.

If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the jeans, the design of belts and boots, the haircut, the number and size of earrings.

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

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

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?