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“My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.”

Reason Opportunity Stuff Design Musician Training Engineers Synthesizers

Author:Robert Moog

“So much of design is context.”

Author:Steve Madden

“Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.”

People Different Moments Opportunity Decision Pieces Style Design Directors Productions Obsessed Visuals Different Peoples Different Styles Production Design

Author:B. J. Novak

“There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.”

Reason Space Design Building No Reason Concrete

Author:Oscar Niemeyer

“I've generally got a good eye for design and proportion.”

Eye Design Proportion

Author:Bruce Oldfield

“At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater!”

Age Wanted Design Theater

Author:Christian Louboutin

“I never wanted to design clothes. I never wanted to work for the fashion industry. Shoes sort of belong to the fashion industry, which is why I'm part of the fashion industry. But that's never been my thought. My thought since I was a child was really to design those shoes for girls on stage.”

Children Wanted Girl Stage Fashion Design Industry Clothes Shoes My Thoughts Fashion Industry

Author:Christian Louboutin

“Watching my dad, Ralph Lauren, design clothes when I was young, I was always inspired.”

Young Design Dad Clothes Inspired My Dad Lauren

Author:Dylan Lauren

“With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces.”

Thinking Church Space Design Plates Volume Spoons Always Thinking Skyscraper Voluptuous

Author:Greg Lynn

“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.”

Source: Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet

“Studying design has made me a much, much more astute observer of this aspect of business. And I'm working mightily to improve my empathic skills. I've dramatically improved my ability to read facial expressions - and I'm trying to be a better, more attentive listener.”

Trying Made Ability Study Design Expression Skills Aspect Listeners Observers Facial Facial Expression Astute

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“I love math. I have little secret number tattoos everywhere. I design them.”

Littles Numbers Secret Design Math Tattoo Math Love Math And Love

Author:Pauley Perrette

“Airplanes were invented by natural selection. Now you can say that intelligent design designs our airplanes of today, but there was no intelligent design really designing those early airplanes. There were probably at least 30,000 different things tried, and when they crash and kill the pilot, don't try that again.”

Trying Different Today Natural Design Intelligent Different Things Pilots Airplane Crash Selection Natural Selection Intelligent Design

Author:Burt Rutan

“My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it in such a way that it will cut together. And how to design the style and tone.”

Way Together Film Roles Cutting Style Design Directors Casts Tone Overview

Author:Jay Roach

“You have to design and program differently. Combat action in an MMO is so different to combat in a first-person shooter.”

Firsts Persons Different Action Design Program Combat First Person Shooter

Author:John Romero

“Designing bridal is perfect for me, because black is my least favorite color, if you could call it a color.”

Ifs Black Perfect Design Color Bridal Favorite Color Perfect For Me

Author:Lela Rose

“When we were in the design studio I always was pretending like I was in a closet asking my friend before I step out into the world what do I look like? And everybody wants that honest friend before they go and go to dinner or go to an event.”

World Want Looks Steps Honest Events Design My Friends Asking Studios Dinner Pretending Closets Honest Friends

Author:Nicole Richie

“When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the people who went to rock concerts. It didn't go beyond that aspiration at that point.”

People Reason Wanted Stars My Own Rocks Design Clothes Dresses Aspiration Concerts Rock Star Own Business Rock Concerts

Author:Anna Sui

“It was something I was more interested in myself. When I went to see my sister dance at ballet, I was really into costumes and the arts, and my family was also supportive of whatever me and my sister wanted to do. I would say I pushed myself the most to be into design.”

Art Wanted Design My Family My Sister Ballet Costumes Supportive

Author:Christian Siriano

“The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it.”

Bits Sound Rights Design Citizens Constitution Remains Bills Brilliant Separation Daily Life Republic Adaptation Constructive Provision Bill Of Rights Separation Of Powers

Author:Larry Sabato

“Intelligent design is consistent with any faith system I can think of, because most faith systems believe that there is a creator.”

Thinking Believe I Can Design Intelligent Creator Consistent Intelligent Design

Author:Lee Strobel

“Innocence does not protect you from the evil designs of others.”

Doe Evil Design Protect Innocence Protect You

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come to the end of time. God sends a time of forced leisure, a time of sickness and disappointed plans, and makes a sudden pause in the hymns of our lives, and we lament that our voice must be silent and our part missing in the music which ever goes up to the ear of our Creator. Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time and not be dismayed at the rests. If we look up, God will beat the time for us.”

“In martial arts one of the first things that you learn is to be balanced. Balance is the central principle in architecture and design. Balance is a way of trying to talk about being at the center of things.”

Way Trying Firsts Art Principles Design Buddhism Balance Architecture Martial Arts Balanced Architecture And Design

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You see two people together. They're in a relationship. It's really power that holds those people together. And when the designs of power change, those people will separate and there's nothing they can do in the meantime about it.”

People Two Together Can Do Design Buddhism Sexuality

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

Ifs Should Made Spirit Purpose Poor Design Guides Resolution Committees

Book:Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted

Source: Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted

“Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.”

Cities Design Discipline Strategy Urban Innovative Transportation Singapore Urban Design

Author:Moshe Safdie

“I'm completely taken and impressed by the planning authority of Singapore and its Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). It's the most cutting-edge agency in the world. They have very effective guidelines for development, and they review design as it evolves.”

World Taken Cutting Design Development Authority Edges Planning Evolve Agency Reviews Impressed Urban Singapore Cutting Edge Guidelines

Author:Moshe Safdie

“English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market.”

World States United United States Pieces Design

Author:Norman Spinrad

“So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.”

Design Products Enjoyed Engineering Product Design

Author:Debi Thomas

“If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there, the formula kicks in. Each room should have something unique and different about it - much the same way that in a song, every eight bars or so, a new piece of information should be introduced.”

Ifs Way Should Looks Different Song Rooms Talking Pieces Information Design Paper Unique Should Have Eight Bars Kicks Formulas Architect Blank Initials

Author:Ryan Tedder

“I wouldn't say design has become strictly functional. A lot of cars these days look downright comic book to me, and the info-gadgets with which late industrial people spend the most time - phones, music players, etc. - are blobjects.”

People Looks Book Player Car Design Late Phones Comic These Days Etc Comic Book Gadgets

Author:Scott Westerfeld

“I've learned a lot about stage-managing for illustration. Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image. I've also learned to making big-scale design decisions early.”

Sometimes Character Bigs Decision Stage Design Scene Scales I've Learned Illustration Overcrowding

Author:Scott Westerfeld

“If you're designing out of a purely creative place, not thinking of the girl, then the consumer's not going to take notice.”

Ifs Thinking Girl Creative Design Consumers

Author:Alexander Wang

“So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan.”

Names Born Design Competition Raised Architect Submission Memorial Premises Virginia Born And Raised

Author:Amy Waldman

“I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.”

Design Architecture

Author:Caroline Wozniacki

“I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.”

Fashion Design Studios

Author:Vera Wang

“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.”

Source: Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

“I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.”

Art Technology Design Computer Photography Art Photography

Author:William Landay

“I was the Playmate editor for Playboy for two years. I produced two years' worth of centerfolds. I did everything on that, from picking the girls to designing the sets to picking the wardrobe, coming up with themes, assigning the photographer, down to editing the photos and approving the retouching.”

Years Two Girl Design Photographer Theme Two Years Editors Editing Wardrobe Playboy Approving Retouching

Author:Holly Madison

“In regards to being a fashion aficionado, there's a certain amount of taking yourself seriously in the professional world. The self-effacing person can't completely go down the serious road. But I design, and love when things are beautiful.”

World Persons Self Beautiful Certain Fashion Design Serious Amount And Love Regard

Author:St. Vincent

“Men have no concept of how to design things for the home. Women should design the things they use.”

Men Should Use Home Design Concepts

Author:Eva Zeisel

“I don't like to design single objects. I like my pieces to have a relationship to each other. They can be mother and child, like the Schmoo salt and pepper shakers, or brother and sister like the Birdie salt and peppers, or cousins, like most of my dinnerware sets.”

Children Mother Pieces Design Objects Brother Salt Brothers And Sisters Cousin Peppers Mother And Child Shakers Salt And Pepper

Author:Eva Zeisel

“When I met my designs in the market of a remote village in the West Indies, or in the airport restaurant in Zurich, I felt like the mother of many well-behaved children.”

Wells Children Mother Felt Design Mets West Restaurants Village Airports West Indies Zurich

Author:Eva Zeisel

“The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me being the eldest son, I had to take over his shop, his profession and so on and so on. I tried to escape by going to art school and then going on to industrial design and then interior design.”

“When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb its depths, its form, its history and its sensuous qualities.”

Trying Form Quality Design Building Depth Site Sensuous

Book:Architektur denken

Source: Architektur denken

“I think test-driven design is great. But you can test all you want and if you don’t know how to approach the problem, you’re not going to get a solution.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Problem Know How Design Approach Solutions Tests Driven

Author:Peter Norvig

“The human species is often amazingly inventive and industrious but at the same time profoundly lazy. It's very clear that we humans don't like to work. This aversion to work is so extreme - and our ingenuity so acute - that we're eager to devote countless hours designing and building devices that might shave a few minutes off our workday”

Humans Might Hours Clear Minutes Design Building Species Extremes Lazy Devices Ingenuity Aversion Human Species Industrious

Book:Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

Source: Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

“Architects design houses. I live in a home.”

Home House Design Architect

Author:Peter Eisenman

“I would never live in anything I design. Life and art are different. My life is very precious to me - my art is precious to me. I love designing things for other people, but I don't like designing things for myself.”

People Art Different Life Is Design Art Is

Author:Peter Eisenman