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
It was such an idyllic time when I grew up in Hong Kong. It was a British colony and very much geared towards buying the best of Britain. My childhood does have a huge influence on how we design. There must be a little bit of that nostalgia – childhood is so special. – Marie-Chantal Claire
There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories – simple. – Frank Gehry
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
When I am true to my inspiration, even fight for my design, the project always turns out well. – Christian de Portzamparc
Proponents of intelligent design don’t accept that some of the very complex nanomachines that we have inside ourselves could have come about solely on the basis of natural selection. – Francis Collins
Consumer confusion is the result of many individual problems when it comes to website design and development services, but in a nutshell, it boils down to the rapid growth of the Web and the lack of competitive measure available. – Molly Holzschlag
When the Great Fire of London destroyed most of the medieval city in 1666, Christopher Wren was invited to design a new one. Within days, he had drawn up an elegant grid of broad boulevards leading to majestic squares, but it came to nothing – the existing landowners wanted things as they had been. – Norman Foster
I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a Ph.D. in comparative literature, so we have a lot of her Spanish and German literature books which are wasted on me, plus a lot of novels and books on art and architecture shared by us both. Evelyn used to edit an art magazine called ‘FMR,’ so we have a common interest in design. – David Chipperfield
Being inspired is one thing, but completely knocking off a design is another. There is a big difference. – Edgardo Osorio
You think about the beauty and what you want to transmit. If I think about designing, I can’t design. – Elsa Peretti
At the height of the first great dot-com boom, Craig Kanarick, then in his early 30s, was running Razorfish, a Web design firm he’d co-founded with an old friend, which at its peak had 2,300 employees in nine countries. – David Sax
Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That’s its role. – Dieter Rams
I don’t design houses with the nuclear family idea because I don’t believe in it as a concept. – Peter Eisenman
For some reason I have a visual intuition that allows me to design things in an interesting way, and I don’t know where that came from. Because I don’t have this formal training, I seem to drift in a different direction. – David Carson
I design flats like I design heels: They must be seductive, beautiful and comfortable. – Edgardo Osorio
Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained. – Ferdinand Porsche
Young people in Israel are encouraged to design, produce and sell their products from high school. Technical universities also matter. Teach and introduce entrepreneurship courses in technical universities. – Dan Shechtman
Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated. – Niklaus Wirth
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
For all the drama we all have with our families and all the tension and hostility, I couldn’t have done this without my family. Being the people that they are – they’re crazy – made it possible for me to be crazy and to live a lifestyle of my own design. – Dan Colen
I got into university to study graphic design, and I got into drama school as well, so I had the choice whether I wanted to go down the sensible route or if I wanted to become an actor. – Chris Geere
Men have no concept of how to design things for the home. Women should design the things they use. – Eva Zeisel
The way I design generally is very much travel-oriented because that is my life. That’s why I make clothes that are so light and so easy to pack and a little bit seasonless. – Diane von Furstenberg
In terms of design, it’s true the world has an influence. But, as a designer, you have to protect yourself. You have to look at the world and then forget it. – Nicolas Ghesquiere
Digitally enabled supply chains initially increased efficiency and dramatically shortened lead times. Capital was mobile; labor, less so. Economic activity (production, research, design, etc.) moved to any accessible country or region that had relatively inexpensive labor and human capital. – Michael Spence
I like playing sport. I’m a bit of a design enthusiast, and like spending time with my girlfriend and mates. – Nick D’Aloisio
