I’m a big believer you should design work around a vast majority of people who want to do the right thing rather than around the tiny minority who might take advantage. – Gail Kelly
Write out the story – rapidly, fluently, and not too critically – following the second or narrative-order synopsis. Change incidents and plot whenever the developing process seems to suggest such change, never being bound by any previous design. – H. P. Lovecraft
I joined the staff of EMI in Middlesex in 1951, where I worked for a while on radar and guided weapons and later ran a small design laboratory. During this time, I became particularly interested in computers, which were then in their infancy. It was interesting, pioneering work at that time: drums and tape decks had to be designed from scratch. – Godfrey Hounsfield
I’ve always wanted to design a Mustang. I just never really had the opportunity in my career because the timing was never right. – Henrik Fisker
The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process. – Gianfranco Ferre
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. – Henry Samueli
Obamacare is terminal. It is going to fail under the crushing weight of its own flawed design. – Glenn Thompson
I was just taught very early that if I didn’t solve problems, I was headed for a very dark path. Problems were everywhere. Now, even if there are no problems, I look for problems. I’m like, ‘You know what? I don’t like the way this spoon works. I want to design a new spoon.’ – Homaro Cantu
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. – Henri Matisse
It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage introduced through redesign, there is an accompanying unintended disadvantage. – Henry Petroski
You can almost say that a design error is a human error because, after all, it’s we humans who do the designing. – Henry Petroski
You cannot design shoes if you only think about fashion; it’s too realistic. When I design, I dream. – Giuseppe Zanotti
At Stanford, we teach ‘design thinking’ – that is, we put together small, interdisciplinary groups to figure out what the true needs are and then to apply the art of engineering to serve them. – Hasso Plattner
I believe there’s still room for the dream a lot of people in the industry have – to design and build your own cars. – Henrik Fisker
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before. – Herodotus
Flying through a hurricane is the most fearsome shaking you will ever get. Everything has to be tied down in the airplane. And the IMAX camera has to be rock-steady through all this. We had to design special mounts on the left and right sides of the cabin and in the cockpit to hold the cameras. – Greg MacGillivray
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. – Henrik Fisker
It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution. – George Edmund Street
Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. – Herbert Simon
With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces. – Greg Lynn
By supporting all the links in the building chain and giving them an easy, intuitive tool for sharing model-based project information, GTeam enhances workflows and improves communication from design through to fabrication and assembly. – Greg Lynn
I have made bouquets of pleats, bouquets of flowers, bouquets of ruffles, bouquets of feathers. Often I design in mousseline, held tightly around the waist, and with something else going on all around. – Giambattista Valli
We call the fates of the Titanic and the Concordia – as well as those of the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia – ‘accidents.’ Foreseeing such undesirable events is what engineers are expected to do. However, design trade-offs leave technological systems open to failings once predicted, but later forgotten. – Henry Petroski
At school I was a disaster, but when I would design, I could feel a sense of pride. I’ve always designed, and I would literally design everything I’d see: cars, bikes, motorcycles – everything. – Giuseppe Zanotti
