“The blending of architecture, solar, wind, biological and electronic technologies with housing, food production, and waste utilization within an ecological and cultural context will be the basis of creating a new ...design science for the post-petroleum era.” TechnologyDesignWindWasteCreatingBasesProductionsArchitectureErasPostsHousingEcologicalPetroleumUtilizationFood Production Author:John Todd
“The painter of genius will not waste a moment upon those smaller objects which only serve to catch the sense, to divide the attention, and to counteract his great design of speaking to the heart.” HeartMomentsAttentionDesignObjectsGeniusWastePainterDividesGreat Design Book:Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, Delivered at the Royal Academy Source: Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, Delivered at the Royal Academy
“Museums just seem to have this borrowed cachet—if I want to seem cultural, I will design something cultural. I resist the idea that culture is only opera houses or theatres. Culture is your entire life around you: toilets, the bus, the kerb or the dump where you drag your waste. Culture has come to mean the arts, but it’s swimming pools as well.” IfsWantWellsMeanArtIdeasSeemsCultureHouseDesignWasteTheatreMuseumsBusSwimmingPoolOperaDragToiletsBorrowedDumpSwimming PoolOpera House Author:Thomas Heatherwick
“It's can you, Steve Wozniak, design the same computer - maybe it's a Varian 620i - can you design it on paper with fewer chips than last month? Can you design it with 79 chips instead of 80 chips? I had played this game so long that I had all these little tricks in my head that I can't even explain... Nothing was wasted; absolutely zero waste. I told this story recently to the Resource Recovery Association, recycling, and they loved to hear I didn't believe in waste.” BelieveLittlesLongI CanStoriesLastsGamesDesignMonthsWastePaperComputerResourcesTricksRecoveryZeroAssociationFewerChipsRecycling Author:Steve Wozniak
“It is a mighty error to suppose that none but violent and strong passions, such as love and ambition, are able to vanquish the rest. Even idleness, as feeble and languishing as it is, sometimes reigns over them; it usurps the throne and sits paramount over all the designs and actions of our lives, and imperceptibly wastes and destroys all our passions and all our virtues.” SometimesAbleActionPassionStrongVirtueOur LivesDesignWasteAmbitionErrorsViolentLazinessThronesReignIdlenessParamountVanquishStrong Passion Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Mediocre design provably wastes the world's resources, corrupts the environment, affects international competitiveness. Design is important.” WorldImportantEnvironmentDesignWasteResourcesInternationalMediocreCompetitiveness Author:Fred Brooks
“Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.” MayBookActionReadingDesignPrideConversationWastePaperWeary Author:William Butler Yeats
“There are still to be found visionary or designing men, who stand ready to advocate the paradox of perpetual peace between the states, though dismembered and alienated from each other.... The genius of republics, say they, is pacific; the spirit of commerce has a tendency to soften the manners of men, and to extinguish those inflammable humours which have so often kindled into wars. Commercial republics, like ours, will never be disposed to waste themselves in ruinous contentions with each other. They will be governed by mutual interest, and will cultivate a spirit of mutual amity and concord.” MenStillsWarStatesSpiritFoundInterestDesignHumourReadyGeniusWasteTendenciesMannersMutualParadoxRepublicPerpetualCommercePacificContentionAmityMutual Interest Author:Alexander Hamilton
“Turning every business into an environmental industry will involve applying new principles...first, we need to make more with less...second, we need to design out waste...third, we must begin to decarbonise our energy supply” NeedsFirstsEnergyBusinessPrinciplesDesignIndustryWasteEconomicsThirdsManagementEnvironmental Author:David Miliband
“Designing and implementing a strategy for change is a waste of time until you have discovered and embraced the current reality. If you don't know where you really are, it is impossible to get where you need to be.” IfsKnowsNeedsRealityImpossibleDesignWasteStrategyCurrentsWasting TimeImplementing Book:Next Generation Leader Source: Next Generation Leader
“To eliminate the concept of waste means to design things-products, packaging, and systems-from the very beginning on the understanding that waste does not exist.” MeanDoeUnderstandingDesignProductsWasteConceptsPackaging Author:William McDonough