Design Quotes

My background is in hardware design. I found hardware work to be a welcome change from thousands of hours of programming and that led to the designs you mentioned.

Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it w…

There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the…

Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.

Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actu…

I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.

I brought a lot of my own pieces of clothes to the design room when I first met with the design team just so they could see what my style was like.

There were IBM logos designed for the film, and there were IBM design consultants working with Kubrick on the layout of the controls and computer screens.

My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures.

IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film.

When the Grateful Dead needed a quality sound system to deliver our sonic payload, I learned electronics and speaker design.

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either.

I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.

The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England.

Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.

Once you come up with a premise, you have to work out how it all happened. It's a bit like coming up with a spectacular roof design first. Before you can get it up there, you need to build a solid fo…

I've always loved interior design.

I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing.

But my point is that you design something in the end that precludes any unhealthy trading practices that are not going to serve your environmental or your economic objectives but now is not the time …

It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.

I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.

I don't design cars. I'm not a designer. I know what I desire to be built, I know what the end result is, the horsepower, the competition we'll be working against - but I leave it to the people who w…

In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal.…

Dubstep has everything for me. Rhythm, sound design, heartfelt emotion - all in one place.