“I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.”
Good design is invisible; you only notice it when it is bad. These quotes come from designers, architects, and creative thinkers who understand that making something simple is usually the hardest work of all.
“Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club.”
“I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.”
“In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.”
“While a case can be made for intelligent design, I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all, it doesn't prove there's a God. If anything, intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature.”
“But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?”
“If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny.”
“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future it is something you design for the present.”
“I don't design down to a price.”
“Sacred spaces can be created in any environment.”
“When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.”
“A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.”
“A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes - as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was.”
“I won't give up my day job of design.”
“Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.”
“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.”
“Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.”