As power-supply solutions get more and more complex, the need for application support and design expertise grows exponentially. We want our customers to concentrate on their core competencies, while we provide all the technical expertise...

In pursuing a ‘way,’ Japanese typically move beyond an interest in craftsmanship to a kind of sacred search for the ultimate.

Planning is for the world’s great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and...

If you can design one thing, you can design everything.

If I had to drink water like my cat, I’d croak over dead in no time. Maybe it’s like eating rice with chop sticks? Both are absurdly difficult and unfathomable for me. Not that I...

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

When you want to know how things really work, study them when they’re coming apart.

There were a couple of developmental-level drawings with ash trees proposed, but we had our design associates choose different shade trees for the project.

You cannot redistribute what you don’t have. We deliberately designed some specific social programs, but did not design the economy to have a trickle-down effect, … We have planted a seed and I have paid...

That’s worth much more than any single design win.

Intuitive design happens when current knowledge is the same as the target knowledge.

You know, they had supply problems and union disputes and a few design problem to work out. So it took longer than you would think, even for The Empire.

You don’t get to decide the truth. Other people have their own experiences, just as valid. This is easy to forget. Your slice of life seems so large and unmistakeable, like a mirage of wholeness...

I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job.

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and...

The genius of Laplace was a perfect sledge hammer in bursting purely mathematical obstacles; but, like that useful instrument, it gave neither finish nor beauty to the results. In truth, in truism if the reader...

I believe I’m very normal. I’m hyper-normal. I’m more normal than anyone else I know. I think my thoughts, my indulgences, my desires, my pleasures may at first appear different, but that is only because...

(found in Just My Type by Simon Garfield p. 19)If you don’t get your type warm it will be no use at all for setting down warm human ideas … By jickity, I’d like to...

Sometimes time spent reinventing the wheel results in a revolutionary new rolling device. But sometimes it just amounts to time spent reinventing the wheel.

We have an internal check and balance system. By design we are so filled with possibility, opportunity, with greatness that when we live small, within the bottom of our capability, we innately know we should...

Competitive forces are definitely forcing manufacturers to reduce their product design cycles between changes.

We have always wanted to design in composites.

To clarify, *add* data.

What I should have said is that he thinks that there is a conflict between evolutionary biology and theism. Dennett thinks that evolutionary theory shows that it is irrational to believe that God exists; he...

Did they want what I wanted?Did they want to understand, to unlock it? To decode it? To glean, to touch, to learn, to get something, to proceed, to get somewhere, to graduate, to work, to...

Consciously or not, we feel and internalize what the space tells us about how to work. When you walk into most offices, the space tells you that it’s meant for a group of people to...

To say that life is nothing but a property of certain peculiar combinations of atoms is like saying that Shakespeare’s Hamlet is nothing but a property of a peculiar combination of letters.

How does what I’m building help consumers close the gap between who they are today and who they want to be tomorrow?

I so hate it when I’m quoted to thwart the juices and desires of the great interior design public at large’ – Daily Express

Particularly in high-end design, there was always that sensibility that they have continued to do: To keep it classic and understated.

A chair is the first thing you need when you don’t really need anything, and is therefore a peculiarly compelling symbol of civilization. For it is civilization, not survival, that requires design.

There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their...

There were certain things they had to do in the design. And there were some things they couldn’t do.

We interrogate the world by making.

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

In Paley’s famous illustration, the adaptation of all the parts of the watch to the function, or purpose, of showing the time, is held to be evidence that the watch was specially contrived to that...

Design is body language for inanimate objects.

This has been an ongoing design goal of ours,

What many refer to as intuition, then, is not the untaught or unteachable but instead is a learned understanding and respect of process, molded by experience and refined over a great deal of time and...

Some do not want to create rich experiences for others, others lack the ability to do so, but most just want to experience being rich, with little to no other experience.

You want me to explain myself! give me a brush, not a pen

The repercussion of ugliness is endless.

It’s natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went around the earth. Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how...

Real artists ship.

Accident is nature’s way of starting a design; design is a man’s way of looking at the accidents.

Parks, plazas, gardens, and rooftops are culture-producing places, not merely place for retreat. Sidewalks and bridges become ends in themselves instead of just a means of getting from one place to another.

Strip your website down to the basics and do a few things really well.

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God doesn’t create imitations, so He designed you naturally. It’s ungratefulness to dream of putting on unnatural self. You have no right to fake God’s design!

For me, it’s color and design. There’s the group aspect to it, too.