Design Quotes

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.

“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.”

Tony Campolo

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“As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.”

Stockwell Day

“Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.”

Steve Jobs

“I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing.”

Donald Norman

“The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995.”

Charles Foster Bass

“I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.”

James Dyson

“Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.”

George Santayana

“The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.”

David Rockefeller

“I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.”

Tom Stoppard

“Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.”

Ice Cube

“In its report, the Cox Committee concludes that China is using stolen U.S. design information to speed up its deployment of a new nuclear missile force.”

Charles Foster Bass

“I had a faux-hawk for a while and I used to buzz the sides and design it. It was really bad.”

Joe Jonas

“In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.”

Donald Norman

“It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format.”

Donald Norman

“I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf.”

Kate Moss

“When I come to a design decision, people know that is that.”

Carlos Ghosn

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