- Nov 07, 2020
Design Quotes
On design as history, craft, and a single creative umbrella.
A few quotes here take a long historical view, tracing design back to early stone tools and ancient flutes long before the word itself existed. For more, see Creativity quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Cooking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can get a lot of design testing of your missile program, and you can do a lot of - there's other ways other than physically to develop your weaponization program to get you very close to the real deal.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you asked a team of expert psychologists and sociological researchers to come up with a design that was sure to infuriate and offend liberals in America, they'd probably come up with what we call the Great Seal.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate.
- Delay
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- Nov 07, 2020
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
- Distinctive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Apart from differentiating our spaces with design, we also look for buildings that have distinctive character. We make sure every seat is a good one.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the Grateful Dead needed a quality sound system to deliver our sonic payload, I learned electronics and speaker design.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Steve Jobs, if he had lived, was gonna design an iCar. I think cars have an extraordinary opportunity for cool design.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.
- Economic Activity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Digitally enabled supply chains initially increased efficiency and dramatically shortened lead times. Capital was mobile; labor, less so. Economic activity (production, research, design, etc.) moved to any accessible country or region that had relatively inexpensive labor and human capital.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I arrived at Harvard, I wanted to design a course in political theory that would have interested me, back when I was started out, in a way that the standard things didn't.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I have a style, I am not aware of it.
- Career
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design, and I've devoted much of my career to this.
- Healing
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- Nov 07, 2020