Design Quotes

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White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony.

Stephen Sondheim

If protesting against having a nuclear bomb implanted in my brain is anti-Hindu and anti-national, then I secede. I hereby declare myself an independent, mobile republic. I am a citizen of the earth. I own no territory. I have no flag. My policies are simple. I'm willing to sign any nuclear non-proliferation treaty or nuclear test ban treaty that's going. Immigrants are welcome. You can help me design our flag.

An Israeli statistician named Hare, Had five factors he wished to compare, Levels of each were nine, So of course his design Was a Hebro-Greco-Latin square.

Joseph L. Fleiss

Astronomers must keep their eyes and ears open, watching and listening.... They must dream of the impossible, and promptly design the best way to attain it.

If a tree mouse did not exist and I were told to design one, I could hardly improve on Nature's product - a small, sure-footed beast dressed in the protective colors of fir-tree cones, adapted to a resinous diet, and adapted to moving about in a narrow ecological niche.

Victor Blanchard Scheffer

Forget all the rules you ever learned
about graphic design.

Bob Gill (artist)

Mathematics is not only the model along the lines of which the exact sciences are striving to design their structure; mathematics is the cement which holds the structure together.

What's the number-one thing people do on the Web? They read. Words and numbers are the raw material from which the vast majority of webpages are built. If reading is the primary activity on the Web, then readability is a primary function of Web design.

More is owing to what we call chance... than to any proper design or preconceived theory in this business.

Joseph Priestley

Another fitting example here is that of Hercules Segers, disregarded and yet a great artist......His observation was unwavering and effective, particularly in his design of landscapes and compositions, with imaginary mountains and caves. It was as if he were pregnant with whole provinces, giving birth to them with immeasurable spaces, and picturing them to a marvel in his paintings and prints.

Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten

Always think of drawing, getting the forms realized, emphasizing the design.

It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. As Henry Ford said many years earlier: "If I had listened to my customers, I would have built a faster horse." Inventions in general express Shannon entropy. They come from the supply side.

Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like me column that guided Israel in the deserts, becomes the guardian pillar of light and fire to our friends, a cloud of overwhelming and impenetrable darkness to our enemies.

Charles Caleb Colton

A good sample-design is lost if it is not carried out according to plans.

W. Edwards Deming

Solemn Australians think that an interest in design is a superficial and trivial interest. This is actually an improvement, they used to think it effeminate and vaguely immoral.

Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he has every right to discard for another one, of improved design, after the harvest.

Paul Sabatier (chemist)

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.

The lifeless symmetry of architecture, however beautiful the design and proportion, no man would be so mad as to put in competition with the animated charms of nature.

In companies whose wealth is intellectual capital, networks, rather than hierarchies, are the right organizational design.

Thomas A. Stewart

Within the limits of nature's law, a man is free to mold his future. By design he may increase the probability of a desired outcome. And so we say that destiny is a choice, a selection among alternative destinies. But the selection cannot be left to accident; it is not fortuitous, automatic, foolproof. Man himself must choose.

George William Gray

If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you would probably design something like a classroom.

God makes it clear that his image bearers must live in dynamic communion with one another, thereby discovering and celebrating the good gift of one's own gender and that of the other. With a cross-shaped lens, we behold the beauty of man for woman and woman for man. None of us has ever lost that original design. No matter how broken we have become, we have never lost the potential to be good gifts for others!

Andrew Comiskey

I don't know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an engineer, rather than wanting to design something--or wanting to be a writer, rather than wanting to write. It should be a by-product, not a thing in itself. Otherwise, it's just an ego trip.

Neither in environment nor in heredity can I find the exact instrument that fashioned me, the a.non.y.muse roller that passed upon my life a certain intricate watermark whose unique design becomes visible when the lamp of art is made to shine through life's foolscap.

Vladimir Nabokov

Traditional horizontal search engines cannot always identify the target audience, niche or vertical industry of a page or site. Vertical search engines address this issue by the nature of their design. They identify sites according to more specific criteria and sometimes even by human input.