Designer Quotes

I plant rosemary all over the garden, so pleasant is it to know that at every few steps one may draw the kindly branchlets through one's hand, and have the enjoyment of their incomparable incense; and I grow it against walls, so that the sun may draw out its inexhaustible sweetness to greet me as I pass.

Gertrude Jekyll

The more I learnt about this cheeky – almost rebellious – company, the more it appealed to me, as it unapologetically pointed to an alternative in a complacent and creatively bankrupt industry. Apple stood for something and had reason for being that wasn't just about making money.

I only included things that everybody likes, like violence, flowers, children, women, friendship and death.

Tomonobu Itagaki

All creative people hate mathematics. It's the most uncreative subject you can study.

In many ways I still resent the wretched yellow journalism that was clearly evident in (the media's) treatment of the game — 60 Minutes in particular. I've never watched that show after Ed Bradley's interview with me because they rearranged my answers. When I sent some copies of letters from mothers of those two children who had committed suicide who said the game had nothing to do with it, they refused to do a retraction or even mention it on air. What bothered me is that I was getting death threats, telephone calls, and letters. I was a little nervous. I had a bodyguard for a while.

One could describe Design as a plan for arranging elements to accomplish a particular purpose.

Appearance is everything. I find that a view is secondary. Even in those apartments on the East River, it's dull, looking out at those little boats.

That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.

Edward Gordon Craig

The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody would put a flagstick on top.

I will do this. Nothing in my life matters except this. No moment of my life exists except this moment. I am born in this moment, and if I fail, I will die in this moment.

When you get your powers, you learn a lot about yourself. My professors called me mad. It was time for me to stop punishing myself, and start punishing everybody else.

Austin Grossman

Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct.

I'd made a family friendly game about a beaver before this, but when I tried to put it online it got torn apart by a few prominent reviewers. People said that the main character looked like a scary animatronic animal. I was heartbroken and was ready to give up on game-making. Then one night something just snapped in me, and I thought to myself- I bet I can make something a lot scarier than that..

The advantage of being female is that once you're past 65, you can be a dowager empress. After the difficult part in the middle, you're allowed to be eccentric.

Brown people and black people and red people swarmed through our great halls, until those who were white looked simply faded-out human beings beside them. Indeed, I came to see that white is not a color in skin any more than in textiles, and if it had not quality, it had no value even for humanity. I saw that color in skin had a certain advantage in strength and warmth as a means of beauty.

Candace Wheeler

This machine was a failure to the extent that it could not fly. In other respects it was a very important and necessary stepping stone.

Seeing well transforms mere existence into the art of living.

Alexandra Stoddard

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard H. Aiken

The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

Death is very sophisticated. It's like a Noel Coward comedy. You light a cigarette and wait for it in the library.

Theadora Van Runkle

I like to dress egos. If you haven't got an ego today, you can forget it.

Making money from money should be replaced with making money from making.

I would have preferred to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work - for example, a lawn-mower.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

The quality will remain long after the price is forgotten.

Throughout history, people have never before expected to be as comfortable as people do today.