Designing Quotations

Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one.

If you go back to the early days of aviation, the guys designing it built it, and then they got in it and flew it. I mean, who does that anymore?

Before computers, you'd start designing using shapes of cubes. Now I can start with something like a handkerchief, an object that doesn't have strong inside and outside boundaries or much closed volume.

I have a cell phone that doesn't behave like a phone: It behaves like a computer that makes calls. Computers are becoming an integral part of daily life. And if people don't start designing them to be more user-friendly, then an even larger part of the population is going to be left out of even more stuff.

It is sad that so many designers don't know how to make. CAD software can make a bad design look palatable! It is sad that four years can be spent on a 3D design course without making anything! People who are great at designing and making have a great advantage.

We're a very active family, and I like everything in its place. I'm all about designing every little space. It will help me in the business of being a mom. Every single day is so crazy with my work that I just need to be able to come home and do that business as efficiently as I try to do my professional work.

If I had spent as much time in the weight room as I did designing football uniforms, I probably would have had a free college education.

Designing a collection with Aeropostale was completely surreal.

The same time I'm designing my collection, I'm also designing my store. It has to have brand awareness, an identity. I'm also designing the racks and the hangers, and juggling a lot of things.

I think pattern makers are some of the most underrated, undervalued people in fashion. They're the people who are sometimes the geniuses in designing clothing.

When you work with web design companies in San Francisco, you end up with a bunch of twenty-somethings who have their own cultural peculiarities, including obscurity for its own sake. You give those guys a website for a banking institution and they screw it up, because they are designing for themselves.

Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do.

If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools.

Most of the robots being developed for home use are functional in design - Gecko's homecare robot looks rather like the Star Wars robot R2-D2. Honda and Sony are designing robots that look more like the same movie's 'android' C-3PO.

As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but before that, I was obsessed with space, and I was really excited about, you know, being an astronaut and designing rockets, which was something that was always exciting to me.

I want to design jewelry for girls and guys... I'ma spread it out, but I'ma design, probably when I'm just designing furniture and buildings, I'll probably being the jewelry thing, too.

I think I'd be quite good at Builder, like designer, construction... I've always liked making things. I'm quite good with my hands. So I think I'd be quite good at designing new inventions.

I've been a fashion model for 15 years and designing is just an extension of my career. I still plan on modeling lingerie, but at the same time this is a business transition that I plan to have around for a long time.

I love designing costumes that I can actually construct, working to create an environment that people want to be in.

Part of my life is spent designing in urban centers, and part of my life has been spent in factories. But the other part of my life is spent in nature.

The house of Austria has publicly used every effort to deprive the country of its legitimate Independence and Constitution, designing to reduce it to a level with the other provinces long since deprived of all freedom, and to unite all in a common sink of slavery.

Any car designer always dreams about designing their own car - if they say they don't, they're lying... For me, it was never about starting my own company just to make another car.

There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics.

What makes us human depends on what place on our evolutionary path we're talking about. If you go back six million years ago, what makes us human is that we were walking upright. That's all. If you go to 2.6 million years ago, it's the fact that we're designing and making stone tools.

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

Designing is so easy - it's the business that is hard. That's why you really have to respect Ralph Lauren - look at what he's done. Anybody who can sustain themselves should be applauded.

In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.

I described the CEO job as knowing what to do and getting the company to do what you want. Designing a proper company culture will help you get your company to do what you want in certain important areas for a very long time.

Actually, I never liked the idea of bags. I would say, 'Why do so many of my friends spend so much money on these bloody bags?' But once I started designing them, I was completely hooked. There are all of these blogs about bags. It's a whole other industry, and I'm really excited to be a part of it.

Not just cricket, we are doing clothing for football, hockey etc. It's basic stuff, but good designing is what I am looking to do.

Just as playgrounds didn't even make the priority list of most of those responding to Katrina, they all too often slip off the radar of those building our schools, designing our neighborhoods, and drafting government budgets.

Sleep is one of the great pleasures of life. Designing my bed linen line seemed like a natural progression for me. Everyone loves getting into a bed made up with beautiful linen. I love sewing, I love fabrics, and I love sleeping.

Designing was always something I was interested in. I studied fashion design in high school as well as how to sew.

He was doing - Ray was designing the clothes for my mom's show from California. And one of the first appearances I ever made on television was on my mother's show and Ray and Bob did the clothes for that. It has been a long time.

I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain - I'm just using different parts of it for different things.

We developed this product specifically to meet the military's need for an affordable communications OTM solution. By combining the characteristics of new X-Band satellites and our heritage of designing to military specification requirements and maximizing highly reliable COTS technology, we have achieved that goal.

There is a lot of care that is being put into designing the building, it's going to be a very special use building, ... It's not like four walls that you can throw up together for a store or something. The acoustics are very specialized you get one chance to build it you want to make sure that it's right.

The planning phase is done. It's time to start designing it,

Luckily, I went to school at CalArts, and then ended up here at Disney, starting in the Animation Building and working my way up. I started as an animator, and then did character designing and storyboarding, and eventually, directing.

She was not only an actress but worked in every area of theatre, designing costumes and set pieces.

One of my best friends, Stephen Sprouse, Bill Dugan, and I worked designing clothes, doing every conceivable thing. New York was a really intoxicating period for me, literally and figuratively. There was a lot of overlap with Andy Warhol, Studio 54, and Halston.

Similarly, we see immense potential for the small and medium enterprise sector in both countries to collaborate and complement their strengths for designing and manufacturing products that can be marketed across the world at a competitive price.

She doesn't have the shop any longer, but she is still doing interior designing and will help us here.

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Now you mix personal and business life. It is not 9-to-5 on the road it is 24-7. It is about designing for 24-7 and for (merging) home and business needs.

only concern right now is designing a safe and spectacular Freedom Tower in keeping with the well-established master plan for the site.

One of the great things about designing games is that you get to immerse yourself in a topic for a while and then move on to something new.

I work in film, TV, commercials and do live PR stunts for companies. A lot of my time is spent reading scripts and looking at designing sequences, speaking to directors and producers about how they want the sequences to look, how they will work and budgeting those stunts.

I believe the only way we'll be able to solve infant mortality - and other huge social problems - is by designing solutions for those with the greatest intent to carry it out.

I'm almost 60, so the music will be a little bit of a stretch for me at Revolve , ... We're doing it for them designing it for teen girls.

I have always loved beautiful leather objects, especially the detail that goes into designing them both inside and out.

For me, the concept of design is more than object-oriented; it encompasses the design of processes, systems and institutions as well. Increasingly, we need to think about designing the types of institutions we need to get things done in this rapidly accelerating world.

Frankenstein's monster is so iconographic, so my creature designers spent many, many months designing him. I said, 'OK, he has to have a flat head, blots on his neck and Doc Martens on his feet, but other that - we can play with him'.

Form must never trump function. Some objects are made to look so smooth, you don't know where to pick them up or how to turn them on. If I'm designing a garlic press or cheese grater, I need my hand to fit comfortably on it. I like to know, instinctively, how to use it.

I always find the more you can draw on real life characters, people, situations, it works better. Certainly for designing a character, I prefer to draw on real people rather than other guys I've seen in movies, rather than 'here's my version of Clint Eastwood' or whoever.

He had two things in his life -- his work and his family. He was always designing things, even when we went on vacation when we were kids. He was a true design engineer.

Had we known when we were designing Cherry what we know now, we probably would have designed it to have two trails.

With manufacturers of next generation blade servers designing so many blades into a system, high efficiency and power density, plus effective, integrated cooling are essential requirements of the power supplies they use. The D1U series delivers this performance and will help designers in realizing their next generation products.

The only thing I would do differently is, I might make the great room wider and longer. When we do get a ton of people up here, this room is full - but that's like designing a church for Easter Sunday.

Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were.

Over the past five years in particular new websites have been popping up all over the world, selling DVDs mainly and some downloading films into your TV set. Bigger and better sites are on the way. I have been designing such a site for several years now which could go global within a year or two.

Our coaches did a great job designing a defense that took away some of the things they like to do and some of the people they like to go to.

Robert Morris is one of the most talented teams in this league. They are so strong one through five and are so explosive. They have so many players who can score. They are a pretty explosive team. (Coach) Mark (Schmidt) is so good at designing plays to get the right player the right shot at the right time.

Part of the wonderful thing about what we do in fashion is that it really can apply to so many forms of one's lifestyle, and it is such a logical extension to be designing for the home,

Our line is going to be different from other celebrity lines in that we are really designing it.

Some of the challenges include designing a system that is most of all accurate, not easily disabled or avoided, is easy to use and does not create driver-distraction issues.

My relationship with M&S continues to be an exciting journey, from modelling to designing my online range.

Marc and Robert are both very dear friends of mine, and when I was told that they would be designing a T-shirt in honor of me and donating the proceeds to a charity that was very dear to my heart, I was completely blown away by their generosity and thoughtfulness.

John Schlesinger had one of his friends designing it and he had never done a film before. Ten days before it started, they didn't have any costumes. I was rung up and joined up.

It is designing for thousands of people. It's always a joy when visitors enjoy a property and want to return.

I'm slowly designing my second Experimental Guitar record. And next year I will release DUST, the giant rarities collection mentioned earlier.

Manufacturers are getting so much better at making and designing cars. The competition between manufacturers is ferocious, so reliability is still a big factor in a buying decision.

The American people expect public servants to be able to police themselves. But instead of designing a system to enforce ethical conduct, Tom Delay and his cohorts have implemented a self protection system. Obviously, it wasn't good for democracy.

My biggest passion in life is shoes. My mom, I would wear hers as a kid. I am in on the creative meetings and designing and drawings. And I approve everything that you see.

Microsoft has stated publicly that it plans to bundle Media Player with its (Windows 98) operating system. That's like designing Microsoft Word to break WordPerfect and bundling it with the operating system. Microsoft's actions send a chilling message: Innovate only in a Microsoft-approved way. What Microsoft is doing is wrong and must be stopped.

We were looking at the space when we were designing the whole suite of galleries, and we noticed that the ceiling was so tremendously high that we could easily make two floors of it. So what we did -- instead of the original idea of mixing decorative arts and paintings from the 12th century onward -- we have more or less separated the decorative arts from the paintings.

We're designing these homes so you have to explore a bit once you enter the home, and that's part of the excitement of the house.

We're designing for North America, but we have some strategic interest outside. If it's deployed internationally, it will have to be in licensed bands. A lot of developing countries would be easier for 'greenfield' development.

We're definitely designing Office 12 to eliminate the need for other BI technologies.

Users want quiet and powerful machines. Intel is very focused on designing microprocessors that deliver the maximum performance without generating excessive heat or consuming huge amounts of power. For now, the Intel Core Duo fits that bill perfectly.

We have all of the original plans, about 130 sheets of plans, that we used in designing and building the Texas State Capitol Building.

Yeah, just designing stuff, but I don't think there's any big difference between chairs, cars, jewelry or anything. It's all design.

We get tons of letters about all the things the girls do that day. It can be anything from going up with an aerial photographer to take pictures of Walt Disney World, to going out on a fishing boat, or designing web sites.

The problem is Twitter is designing the metaphorical equivalent of a Toyota Prius. A car for the masses. While I want a Formula One race car.

Whether it is every 18 months to two years or whatever, few people are going to appreciate having to relearn everything each and every time they upgrade. So somebody better start designing a great user interface.

When designing the Oscars, I try to make the current show as different from the year before as possible. Last year's show was distinguished by a hi-tech, 'cutting-edge' style. So this year, there's nothing hi-tech -- it's a no-holds-barred return to classic Hollywood glamour, paying homage to old movie theaters.

When designing Guestroom 2010, HFTP will conduct an exhaustive global search for the industry's cutting-edge and future technology. Our intent is for Guestroom 2010 to be an important reference for the industry and the possibility exists that we will take the display to other venues.

We're trying to move this forward to the next step, designing and removing this hot spot, to accelerate the whole cleanup.

When you include the issues that can occur during the processing and distribution stages as well as transport, designing an ocean cargo policy that addresses the full scope of potential pitfalls can be a formidable task. The broad, automatic features and streamlined reporting process offered through Cargo Elite makes it an ideal product for importers and exporters.

While I was designing my home, I was living in different houses all around the world, and I saw thermostats that were just as bad as the ones in the U.S., or houses that needed them but didn't have them. I realised that this was a worldwide problem. I thought, 'Let's fix it.'

You can't design one truck to fit everybody. So we're designing a wide variety of trucks.

To make use of artificial genes we need to make millions of copies of them for experiments using a process called polymerase chain reaction. By putting restriction sites into specific spots along the gene, we can cut it into bite-sized pieces that are easily duplicated millions of times. So the ability to cut and paste genes back together again is critical for designing genes to the right specifications, rapidly replicating them and putting them into vectors to genetically engineer cells.

To make use of artificial genes, we need to make millions of copies of them for experiments using a process called polymerase chain reaction. By putting restriction sites into specific spots along the gene, we can cut it into bite-sized pieces that are easily duplicated millions of times. So the ability to cut and paste genes back together again is critical for designing genes to the right specifications, rapidly replicating them and putting them into vectors to genetically engineer cells.

We've put together a first-rate team that has considerable experience in designing casinos that are visually attractive and fun for visitors.

We spent $15 million designing that stadium, and we don't know how much is reusable on a new site.

We are striving to better meet our customers needs. Our research team is focused on designing a new wind turbine that will not only be one of the most powerful in the world, but sets new standards in efficiency, reliability, and cost of energy as well.

At the time I was designing T-shirts, trying to invent little toys and stuff. One of my biggest goals in life is to go to the bank really hard doing something really stupid.

Don't rely only on designing a system and hoping it's going to work. Test it, and test it with real problems.

During Designing Women I went and did Love Letters a few times, but that was it. Aside from that, I hadn't done a play since drama school.

There's probably a 10-page spec sheet. So we go through all the requirements, and then start designing a couple of weeks into the year. We have each kid design a different concept, and then the class votes on the concept we like best.