Quotes Temple Design Quotes

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Douglas Adams
English Writer

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

John Adams
American President

We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design.

Steve Albini
American Musician

I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look.

Debbie Allen
American Actress

One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.

Ralph Bakshi
American Director

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 creative economy.

John Baldacci
American Politician

Accessible design is good design.

Steve Ballmer
American Businessman

Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.

Tyra Banks
American Model

Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

Isaac Barrow
English Mathematician

I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots.

James Cameron
American Director

For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.

Kim Campbell
Canadian Statesman

That's something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my professor emphasized the responsibility that designers and illustrators have towards the people they create things for.

Eric Carle
American Author

After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America.

Russ Carnahan
American Politician

Whenever I design any variant, or when anybody sends me one, I always say if at all possible within the context of the game don't have two home supply centers touching each other.

Fred Davis
English Celebrity

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

Richard Dawkins
English Scientist

I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.

Robin Day
British Journalist

As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.

Stockwell Day
Canadian Politician

The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.

Michael Dell
American Businessman

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

Charles Eames
American Designer

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

Charles Eames
American Designer

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.

Charles Eames
American Designer

The details are not the details. They make the design.

Charles Eames
American Designer

To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.

Charles Eames
American Designer

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.

Michael Ende
German Writer

Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications.

Drew Endy
American Scientist

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

Arthur Erickson
Canadian Architect

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.

Arthur Erickson
Canadian Architect

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

Arthur Erickson
Canadian Architect

Unfortunately, the client that exists today is still pretty much the prototype design.

Shawn Fanning
American Businessman

The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.

Leo Fender
American Businessman

Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.

Adam Ferguson
Scottish Philosopher

Internet safety begins at home and that is why my legislation would require the Federal Trade Commission to design and publish a unique website to serve as a clearinghouse and resource for parents, teachers and children for information on the dangers of surfing the Internet.

Mike Fitzpatrick
American Politician

I have had this view of the optimization of the electrode design for a long time. Historically we went through various phases in the work and eventually worked on large sheets - very large sheets - of palladium.

Martin Fleischmann
English Scientist

I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May '43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in '42 - even in my position. This aircraft didn't have any priority in design or production.

Adolf Galland
German Soldier

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

Stephen Gardiner
British Architect

Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design.

Stephen Gardiner
British Architect

User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process.

Jesse James Garrett
American Businessman

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.

Bill Gates
American Businessman

Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.

Carlos Ghosn
Brazilian Businessman

Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

George Gilder
American Writer

We want people to realize you are at a design school, not a land grant college. The way we look says a great deal about who we are.

James Hall
American Musician

I don't set goals. Like, that's what I want to be doing however many years from now. I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes.

Ayumi Hamasaki
Japanese Musician

Design is people.

Jane Jacobs
American Sociologist

The primary factor is proportions.

Arne Jacobsen
Danish Architect

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Steve Jobs
American Businessman

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

Philip Johnson
American Architect

Design works if it's authentic, inspired, and has a clear point of view. It can't be a collection of input.

Ron Johnson
Canadian Politician

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

Louis Kahn
American Architect

I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.

Mikhail Kalashnikov
Russian Inventor

Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.

Donna Karan
American Designer

Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.

Kevin Kelly
American Editor

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.

Kevin Kelly
American Editor

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.

Thomas Keneally
Australian Novelist

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

Christian Lacroix
French Designer

They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.

Christian Lacroix
French Designer

The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.

Wally Lamb
American Author

Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.

John Langdon
American Politician

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.

David Herbert Lawrence
English Writer

Stargate by far is the top of the pile when it comes to Sci-Fi. The quality is great. They have really good writers, production design, lighting, wardrobe.

Corin Nemec
American Actor

Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.

Marc Newson
Australian Designer

I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.

Marc Newson
Australian Designer

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.

Marc Newson
Australian Designer

So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.

Marc Newson
Australian Designer

So if I want to buy a light in a shop and I don't find a light that I like, I think to myself what would I like? What would I like to buy? Then I started to imagine and design it for myself a lot of the time.

Marc Newson
Australian Designer

Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started.

Marc Newson
Australian Designer

Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone.

Donald Norman
American Scientist

I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing.

Donald Norman
American Scientist

In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.

Donald Norman
American Scientist

It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format.

Donald Norman
American Scientist

Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.

Donald Norman
American Scientist

User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project.

Donald Norman
American Scientist

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen
American Journalist

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

Dieter Rams
German Designer

Design is everything. Everything!

Paul Rand
American Designer

Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

Paul Rand
American Designer

Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.

Jef Raskin
American Scientist

So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.

Robert Rauschenberg
American Artist

If we don't have accurate information, if we are not able to tell difficult truth one to another, we will never be able to effectively design a policy for Iraq.

Jack Reed
American Politician

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
French Novelist

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

George Santayana
American Philosopher

The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times.

Philip Schaff
Swiss Theologian

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

Kenzo Tange
Japanese Architect

By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.

John Tenniel
English Artist

Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.

Terence
Roman Writer

So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.

Debi Thomas
American Athlete

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

Freeman Thomas
American Designer

I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.

Gianni Versace
Italian Designer

When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.

Larry Wall
Canadian Author

All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it.

Vera Wang
American Designer

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

Thomas J. Watson
American Scientist

Good design is good business.

Thomas J. Watson
American Scientist

I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

Len Wein
American Cartoonist

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

Frank Zappa
American Musician

Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold.

James Randolph Adams

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.

Mike Davidson

Through the harsh design of fate, Florida was dealt the unfortunate circumstances of bearing the brunt of not one but two hurricanes, and it appears more dark clouds are poised to visit the Sunshine State.

Ginny B. Waite

The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.

Tadao Ando
Japanese Architect

I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself.

Ursula Andress
Swiss Actress

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

Leonard Baskin
American Artist

In its report, the Cox Committee concludes that China is using stolen U.S. design information to speed up its deployment of a new nuclear missile force.

Charles Foster Bass
American Politician

The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995.

Charles Foster Bass
American Politician

Design is an unknown.

Geoffrey Beene
American Designer

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish Novelist

Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design.

Sergio Aragones
Spanish Cartoonist

I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.

Giorgio Armani
Italian Designer

I wear a lot of different hats - from writer to producer and artist. We all do 5 or 6 jobs, everything from creating our own graphic design to actually recording and the whole bit.

William Bell

We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.

Michael Behe
American Scientist

Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.

Ivan Chermayeff
Designer

By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.

Steven Chu
American Scientist

God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.

Mary Astell
English Writer

The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all.

Colleen Atwood
American Designer

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

Marcus Aurelius
Roman Emperor

The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.

Harry Bertoia
Italian Sculptor

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Jean Cocteau
French Director

About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

Manolo Blahnik
Spanish Designer

Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to.

Ethan Coen
American Director

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.

Robert Collier
American Publisher

Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be.

Dennis Conner
American Athlete

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

Pierre Bonnard
French Artist

An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.

Daniel J. Boorstin
American Historian

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.

Erma Bombeck
American Journalist

I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.

David Brainerd
American Clergyman

We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.

David Brainerd
American Clergyman

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 was scheduled to go to a science fair.

David Crane

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.

David Crane

I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.

Seymoure Cray

'Design Star' was incredible, and I didn't think it could get any better, and then 'Color Splash' happened.

David Bromstad
American Designer

I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.

Isambard K. Brunel
British Inventor

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

Charlie Byrd
American Musician

Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.

Norm Dicks
American Politician

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

Walt Disney
American Cartoonist

When you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first!

Donald Wills Douglas
American Aviator

I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.

K. Eric Drexler
American Scientist

You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.

Dorothy Dunnett
Scottish Novelist

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

Freeman Dyson
American Physicist

While I was at college studying design I decided to paint. I was also greatly inspired by the colours that I had seen on my travels in the Brazilian Rain forest.

John Dyer

There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.

Rudy Giuliani
American Politician

To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

Charles J. Givens
American Businessman

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

Milton Glaser
American Designer

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

Milton Glaser
American Designer

Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families. However, they refused to include any of those who were removed in the design of their own memorial.

Malcolm Fraser
Australian Politician

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

Marilyn French
American Author

How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?

Kinky Friedman
American Musician

The artist in me cries out for design.

Robert Frost
American Poet

Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.

Genevieve Gorder
American Designer

I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really convinced me of how powerful a thing design is. It's not just an aesthetic decoration.

Genevieve Gorder
American Designer

It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.

Genevieve Gorder
American Designer

So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward.

Genevieve Gorder
American Designer

That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them.

Genevieve Gorder
American Designer

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.

Paul Graham
Scientist

It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this.

Michael Graves
American Architect

Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response.

April Greiman
Designer

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.

Walter Gropius
German Architect

I design for the woman who loves being a woman.

Diane von Furstenberg
Belgian Designer

And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight.

Umberto Guidoni
Italian Astronaut

Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women.

Gary Gygax
American Inventor