- 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
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a perfectionist. And that's served me very well in my career. It allows me to handle these large, complex problems without letting things fall through the cracks... That is the mentality you have to have to attack these complex problems of chip design, for example, when you're overwhelmed with complexity.
- He Or She
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- Nov 07, 2020
Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall or recite them when something in a new design or design process is suggestive of what went wrong in the case study.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any design, whether it's for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything we do is designed, whether we're producing a magazine, a website, or a bridge. Design is really the creative invention that designs everything.
- Say
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can almost say that a design error is a human error because, after all, it's we humans who do the designing.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because every design must satisfy competing objectives, there necessarily has to be compromise among, if not the complete exclusion of, some of those objectives, in order to meet what are considered the more important of them.
- Advantage
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage introduced through redesign, there is an accompanying unintended disadvantage.
- Expression
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always wanted to design a Mustang. I just never really had the opportunity in my career because the timing was never right.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe there's still room for the dream a lot of people in the industry have - to design and build your own cars.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the big failures for the big auto companies is that even the CEO and the top management often don't understand design and manufacturing. As a CEO, you have to make decisions; you need to have knowledge.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't take on projects that are a hassle or when someone comes in and says, 'We really need this design,' and I'm like, 'OK, fine, I'll do it.' It really has to be something that I personally feel intrigued and excited about - any product, as long as I'm excited by it. It doesn't have to be a car.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just like zillions of children, album covers educated and informed me, and certainly did I later transpose organically, rather than by intent, those principles both in fashion design and photography.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm going to design again, but I come back when it's the right project, so I keep my passion for it intact.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020