Premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Good ideas come from everywhere. It’s more important to recognize a good idea than to author it.

People change, and so do their aspirations, and so should brands.

Trying to become something in a world where everyone wants to become something is a thing that needs God’s programming.

Design engineers are going to design the roadway to minimize impacts. Some people might say, my home or barn or business is directly under that line. Well, once the designers start, they might be able...

Attention must be paid’ is the cardinal rule of design discipline, for the designer is above all someone who pays attention to the situation at hand.

It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.

Places matter. Their rules, their scale, their design include or exclude civil society, pedestrianism, equality, diversity (economic and otherwise), understanding of where water comes from and garbage goes, consumption or conservation. They map our lives.

My boyfriend likes to fuck my brains out on our kitchen island. Which tile would you recommend for that?

The key utility measure is user happiness. Speed of response and the size of the index are factors in user happiness. It seems reasonable to assume that relevance of results is the most important factor:...

Since the Leeburg Pike [at Tyson’s Corner] carries six to eight lanes of fast-moving traffic and the mall lacks an obvious pedestrian entrance, I decided to negotiate the street in my car rather than on...

I crumpled up a piece of paper and threw it in the garbage. Then I quickly snatched it out, because hell, I’d just tossed out a Frank Gehry knockoff. What you call trash, I call...

This is my logo for Amy

[Public housing projects] are not lacking in natural leaders,’ [Ellen Lurie, a social worker in East Harlem] says. ‘They contain people with real ability, wonderful people many of them, but the typical sequence is that...

Modernism isn’t a design ethos any more, it’s an economy of scale, and a marketing tool to sell the ordinary as something special, the sexless as erotic. A technological device without a specific, personalized identity...

Going undersea requires a much more robust design. Pressure does horrendous things to technology.

In the medium and higher end you need a combination because you can have best image and design but if the phones don’t have the technology, you’re not going to sell them.

Very often, what is meant to be a stepping stone turns out to be a slab of wet cement that will harden around your foot if you do not take the next step soon enough.

Developing and implementing IT governance design effectiveness and efficiency can be a multidirectional, interactive, iterative, and adaptive process.

We will design and license Windows and our Internet-based services as separate products, so customers can choose Windows with or without Microsoft’s services, … competing services can plug into Windows in the same manner as...

The artist is a collector of things imaginary or real. He accumulates things with the same enthusiasm that a little boy stuffs his pockets. The scrap heap and the museum are embraced with equal curiosity....

You may design something in steel, but to make it, you need to know how to manipulate the material. On a sheer technical end, you have to know how to weld stainless steel.

If you were to design a truly effective measure that would include a wide variety of factors that go into an examination of how police go about their jobs, you could, perhaps, achieve that end....

Encourage yourself that you are good enough to be the owner of your own storehouse. Colour your world; redesign your mental pictures about yourself! Dream big and manifest the dreams!

We’re not making slides, we design it.

This chair was their first venture into furniture making. It blasted off. It became the hottest thing in children’s design.

That’s what we think is new, that you could go buy some centrifuge design information through the Indian procurement system.

Lean brands are the result of continually testing assumptions.

We had to design the staircase that led to the second floor ? this soon became the focal point of the entire house. We also built a wine cellar and utility closet underneath the staircase...

Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.

Simplicity is all but nothing that’s there.

Nothing important should ever be more than two clicks away.

I don’t know what being god must feel like, but it can’t be much different that being an inventor.There is power in the idea that a certain product never existed before you thought of it,...

The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to ‘tidy up’ the mess, as opposed to understanding it’s a ‘day one’ issue and part of everything.

Listening to the desires of clients, then incorporating those ideas into design and landscaping projects is important.

We want people to understand that we have to look at maintenance costs and staffing in decisions on design elements for the pool.

This durable, patented low-cost filter design bridges the gap between low-efficiency diesel-oxidation catalysts and expensive, heavily catalyzed particulate filters. The wire-mesh filter system is designed to work synergistically with a fuel-borne catalyst (FBC) for reliable...

Twenty-six letters: Marjorie Morningstar or Ulysses. The man-made world means exactly that. There isn’t an inch of it that doesn’t have to be dealt with, figured out, executed. And it’s waiting for you to decide...

Design your future. Start with a logo.

We look forward to meeting with the world’s leading contractors, design firms, developers, financiers and building product manufacturers in Beijing to discuss global issues facing this great industry.

Brands play in an exciting sandbox of symbolic meanings.

Think of it this way: if you wandered into a cave and saw scratched into the wall some markings which on closer inspection read “Gary woz ere”, how would you think that they got there?...

There is nothing progressive about turning nature and God’s sacred design for marriage on its head in the name of civil rights,

…no industrial designer worth his salt, or our attention, has been trained to work exclusively on any particular product, unless by accident. What he has been trained to do is practice a process called design,...

The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential – for as at present used, or designed, the world’s resources are serving only forty-four per cent of humanity.

The new architecture and urban design of segregation could be called Calvinist: they reflect a desire to live in a world of predestination rather than chance, to strip the world of its wide-open possibilities and...

I did the craft/home design and groovy decor bit of the show, … a lot of great information being exchanged between women.

It was an effort to include intelligent design and treat it as science, disparaging evolution along the way. That will not stand.

A Puritan twist in our nature makes us think that anything good for us must be twice as good if it’s hard to swallow. Learning Greek and Latin used to play the role of character...

This is my logo for Bethany