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“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

“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

“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.”

“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

“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 more I find life to be a great design, the more I suspect it to be singular in existence; the more I suspect it to be singular, the more I feel it to be specific and personal; the more I feel it to be personal, the more I think of it to be a mere question; And the more I think of it to be a question, the less I understand the questioner.”

Thinking Life Feels Science Existence Design Mere Suspects Great Design

Author:Kedar Joshi

“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”

“They who once engage in iniquitous designs miserably deceive themselves when they think that they will go so far and no farther; one fault begets another, one crime renders another necessary; and thus they are impelled continually downward into a depth of guilt, which at the commencement of their career they would have died rather than have incurred.”

Thinking Careers Crime Design Died Guilt Faults Depth Deceiving Begets Commencement

Author:Robert Southey

“I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.”

People Thinking Real Death Artist Virtue Design Creating Customers Practicals Clothings Individualism Accessories

Author:Giorgio Armani

“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it's this veneer - that the designers are handed this box and told, 'Make it look good!' That's not what we think design is. It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

People Thinking Feels Looks Mistake Design Boxes Designer Veneer

Author:Steve Jobs

“I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.”

Thinking Needs Design Pure Decoration

Author:Jil Sander

“With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.”

Thinking Feels Modern Design Theory Seasons Couture

Author:Olivier Theyskens

“I would never design anything. I just think that's kind of wack. I hated every rapper fashion line that ever came out, you know what I'm saying? I would never try.”

Thinking Knows Trying Kind Lines Fashion Design Hated Rapper

Author:Danny Brown

“The present mode of life on earth is madness, which is nontheless lethal for being legal. Rational existence is possible, but it calls for a world consciousness and a world design. People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.”

People Thinking World Firsts Earth Existence Consciousness Design Habit Citizens Madness Rational Our Time Sanity Fulfilling Requirements World Citizen

Author:Norman Cousins

“I think one of the most important investments an organization like TNC (The Nature Conservancy) can make is in helping build local capacity - supporting the growth of a global network of small community-based entities. Help people who live within critical ecosystems help themselves and their neighbors to design a better future relationship between themselves and their natural resources.”

“For years, I went around the world looking and then painting, but now I have to think first and then paint. It's driven me to find the design concept first, and to rely on my memory and technical skills to supply only those details that are needed.”

Thinking World Years Firsts Memories Design Painting Needed Skills Concepts Paint Details Driven Around The World Rely Technical Skills

Author:Milford Zornes

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

Thinking Form Design Drawing

Author:John French Sloan

“Designing is not a profession but an attitude... Thinking in relationships.”

Thinking Attitude Design Profession

Author:Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

“I approve designs not because I think I am more gifted or somebody who can see ahead three or four years from now, but just to make sure that the design is a logical, rational decision, taken after analyzing pros and cons.”

Thinking Years Three Decision Taken Four Design Rational Logical Four Years Gifted Analyzing Pros And Cons Rational Decisions

Author:Carlos Ghosn

“Lines slip easily down the accustomed grooves. The old designs are copied so glibly that we are half inclined to think them original, save for that very glibness.”

Thinking Lines Half Design Originals Slips Accustomed Groove

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“The correct relationship between the higher and lower classes, the appropriate mutual interaction between the two is, as such, the true underlying support on which the improvement of the human species rests. The higher classes constitute the mind of the single large whole of humanity; the lower classes constitute its limbs; the former are the thinking and designing [ Entwerfende ] part, the latter the executive part.”

Thinking Mind Humans Two Whole Humanity Class Support Design Higher Species Improvement Former Appropriate Latter Executives Mutual Interaction Limbs Human Species Lower Class

Author:Johann Gottlieb Fichte

“In the judgment of design engineers, the ordinary means of communicating with a computer are entirely inadequate. [...] Graphical communication in some form or other is of vital importance in engineering as that subject is now conducted; we must either provide the capability in our computer systems, or take on the impossible task of training up a future race of engineers conditioned to think in a different way.”

“I don't think he (Joseph Albers, fh) ever realized that it was his discipline that I came for. Besides, my response to what I learned from him was just the opposite of what he intended.. ..I was very hesitant about arbitrarily designing forms and selecting colors that would achieve some predetermined result, because I didn't have any ideas to support that sort of thing - I didn't want color to serve me, in other words.”

Thinking Want Ideas Form Results Support Achieve Design Color Discipline Opposites Response Predetermined Hesitant

Author:Robert Rauschenberg

“I try to think and design in color.”

Thinking Trying Design Color

Author:Nelson Shanks

“Although the rumors are of Apple doing an iWatch, I think that design idea is actually too limited.”

Thinking Ideas Design Apples Rumor

Author:Tim Bajarin

“Every heat engineer knows he can design his heat engine reliably and accurately on the foundation of the second law [of thermodynamics]. Run alongside one of the molecules, however, and ask it what it thinks of the second law. It will laugh at us. It never heard of the second law. It does what it wants. All the same, a collection of billions upon billions of such molecules obeys the second law with all the accuracy one could want”

Thinking Knows Want Doe Running Law Asks Laughing Heard Design Foundation Billions Heat Collections Engines Engineers Accuracy Molecules Thermodynamics

Author:John Archibald Wheeler

“I love religion. I could make up religions all day. I sort of think that in an ideal world I'd like to be a religion designer. I'd like people come up to me and say, I need a religion. I'd go talk to them for a while, and I'd design a religion for them. That would be a great job. There's a need for people like that. Fortunately, seeing that one can't actually do it, I get paid for sort of making them up anyway.”

People Thinking World Needs Would Be Jobs Seeing Design Humour Ideals Paid Come Up Designer Great Job Ideal World

Author:Neil Gaiman

“A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.”

Thinking Men World Art Philosophy Interest Steps History Mankind Design Mad Leisure

Author:E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

“I think that (Alister) MacKenzie and I managed to work as a completely sympathetic team. Of course there was never any question that he was the architect and I was the advisor and consultant. No man learns to design a golf course simply by playing golf, no matter how well. But it happened that both of us were extravagant admirers of the Old Course at St Andrews and we both desired as much as possible to simulate seaside conditions insofar as the differences in turf and terrain would allow.”

“Even though their arguments did not invoke religion, I think we all know what's behind these arguments. They're trying to protect religious beliefs from contradiction by science. They used to do it by prohibiting teachers from teaching evolution at all; then they wanted to teach intelligent design as an alternative theory; now they want the supposed "weaknesses" in evolution pointed out. But it's all the same program - it's all an attempt to let religious ideas determine what is taught in science courses.”

“Most of actor's work is done at home, in your hotel room, in the wee hours of the morning thinking and reading and feeling, walking around and listening to music. It really just because an internal exercise, whatever skills. It's great if you have to learn something new for a gig and designing a character physically is always fun but it does become an internal exercise in separating the wheat from the chaff.”

“The traditional view of purpose says it comes from on high, from God, from the Creator. Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition. Whereas people used to think of meaning coming from on high and being ordained from the top down, now we have Darwin saying, "No, all of this design can happen, all of this purpose can emerge from the bottom up without any direction at all."”

People Thinking Ideas Happens Used Purpose Natural Views Design Tradition Bottom Creator Traditional Uncomfortable Reverse Selection Saying No Natural Selection Think Of Me Top Down

Author:Daniel Dennett

“I think my style revolves around the philosophy that less is more, that simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. That goes for my taste in design and in clothes, and even affects the way I approach music. I'm all about keeping things simple, and minimal, but being able to convey something powerful through that approach.”

Thinking Way Philosophy Able Simple Powerful Style Design Taste Approach Clothes Ultimate Simplicity Sophistication Less Is More

Author:G-Eazy

“When you're designing and inventing the way I did, every minute of your life is put - every neuron in your brain into trying to think about the little code and how you can maybe have one less line of code and a little bit more straightforward from the beginning to the answer. And you don't have time to think about companies and products and how would I build this. So Steve Jobs and I were a very necessary pair.”

Thinking Way Trying Littles Jobs Life Is Bits Lines Answers Brain Company Minutes Design Products Little Bit Code Pairs Straightforward Inventing Time To Think Neurons

Author:Steve Wozniak

“Why is composing symphonies tough? I don't know. It's just very few people in the world can do it well. And I think that's the case with upfront design. It is very hard to do well.”

People Thinking Knows World Wells Hard Can Do Cases Design Tough Symphony Composing

Author:Martin Fowler

“One of the things I've been trying to do is look for simpler or rules underpinning good or bad design. I think one of the most valuable rules is avoid duplication. "Once and only once" is the Extreme Programming phrase.”

Thinking Trying Looks Design Extremes Valuable Phrases Programming Duplication

Author:Martin Fowler

“You cannot design shoes if you only think about fashion; its too realistic. When I design, I dream.”

Ifs Thinking Dream Fashion Design Shoes Realistic Too Real

Author:Giuseppe Zanotti

“People say graphic design is so different now, because you have so many more pixels and colors to work with... But when you study art history, you see there's just nothing new under the sun. Mosaics and needlework, it's all analogous to pixel and bitmap art. And with it all, good design's not about what medium you're working in, it's about thinking hard about what you want to do and what you have to work with before you start.”

People Thinking Art Different Study Design Graphic Art History Good Design

Author:Susan Kare

“Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. When I work on designing livestock equipment I can test run that equipment in my head like 3-D virtual reality. In fact, when I was in college I used to think that everybody was able to do that.”

Thinking Mind I Can Facts Reality Running Able Used Language Design College Tests Equipment Virtual Reality Livestock

Author:Temple Grandin

“Think about the market, think about the design, and think about who is going to design for that market. Hit the mark.”

Thinking Design Mark

Author:Tom Peters

“We [MIT Smart Cities research group] try to identify the fundamental underlying design assumptions that everybody takes as a sort of given and unchallengeable when you think about solving these problems. And we try to challenge those assumptions.”

Thinking Trying Problem Given Challenges Cities Groups Design Smart Research Fundamentals Assumption Mit

Author:William J. Mitchell

“I think time is a constraint to destroy and then reinvent. If you give me a constraint, I'll accept it. But I always try to move it around, or to readapt it. Ecco! If you lock me in a room, well I'll go out through the window! I always remember Achille Castiglioni, one of my mentors, and he always said that in industrial design you have the idea, the fantasy, the concepts - that's the marmalade! - but the constraint of the brief is the bread. You need both in order to find structure for your ideas.”

“When I'm designing I try to think about what I like to see on other people.”

People Thinking Trying Design

Author:Dwyane Wade

“What I've learned from different designers is that it's key to be true to who you are and your vision. That's always been my line of thinking. Working through the whole design process, I don't want to create something I wouldn't be proud to wear.”

Thinking Want Different Whole Process Lines Vision Design Keys Proud Who You Are Being True Designer I've Learned Be Proud Design Process Be True To Who You Are

Author:Kellan Lutz

“I believe that bad taste is vulgar. It's like cursing. I think the world can be saved through design, because what is the most distasteful thing someone can do? Kill someone. So, good taste is the opposite of that.”

Thinking World Believe I Believe Can Do Design Taste Opposites Saved Vulgar Good Taste Cursing Bad Taste Distasteful

Author:Kanye West

“I don't have a background in design, so I think it's always about what I see in the world and what inspires me. So yes, I am designing for myself. I'm going through this whole evolution, which is a process of growing up and going from modeling to styling to designing.”

Thinking World Whole Process Growing Up Growing Design Inspire Evolution Backgrounds Modeling

Author:Erin Wasson

“Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women.”

Thinking Men Different Games Process Interest Audience Design Men And Women Female Males Gamer Gaming Thinking Process

Author:Gary Gygax

“Above all, think of life as a prototype. We can conduct experiments, make discoveries, and change our perspectives. We can look for opportunities to turn processes into projects that have tangible outcomes. We can learn how to take joy in the things we create whether they take the form of a fleeting experience or an heirloom that will last for generations.”

Thinking Looks Lasts Form Joy Turns Opportunity Process Creativity Generations Design Perspective Projects Discovery Experiments Outcomes Fleeting Tangible Prototype Heirlooms

Author:Tim Brown

“I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.”

Thinking Doe Ideas Design Equal Importance Architecture Etc Internals Fabric Interiors Furniture Dogmatic

Author:Zaha Hadid

“Each season I strive to design a forward-thinking and effortless collection with a very clean minimalist aesthetic.”

Thinking Design Seasons Clean Strive Collections Aesthetic Effortless Minimalist Forward Thinking

Author:Francisco Costa

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