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Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Predictability and great design are not friends. -- Fred Brooks
A single word often betrays a great design. -- Jean Racine
I'm always drooling over great design, from fashion to furniture. -- Janina Gavankar
The difference between good design and great design is INTELLIGENCE -- Tibor Kalman
Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great, -- Jonathan Ive
When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end. -- John Denham
Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful. -- Dieter Rams
Improving your process won't move you from good to great design. It'll move you from bad to average. -- Fred Brooks
Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard. -- Edward Tufte
Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance. -- Francois Truffaut
3 requirements for a good designer: 1. genuine knowledge and love of great design. 2. sound knowledge of principles and techniques of communication. 3. heart (passion). -- Lester Beall
I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have been concluded. -- William Shakespeare
Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our enemy. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Really successful designs can be created without software produced "special effects." Identities do not NEED bevels, gradations, 3-D imagery, Web 2.Oh-Oh and other oh so "special" treatments to be great design solutions for clients. -- Jeff Fisher
The painter of genius will not waste a moment upon those smaller objects which only serve to catch the sense, to divide the attention, and to counteract his great design of speaking to the heart. -- Joshua Reynolds
Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great. Competent design is not too much of a stretch. But if you are trying to do something new, you have challenges on so many axes. -- Jonathan Ive
You have to have great design to be competitive in today's markets. -- John Doerr
To be all we are designed to be, we must consult the great designer -- consistently. -- Terry Crouson
I never had the dream to be a great designer. My focus was just to do beautiful things. -- Christian Louboutin
I loved watching so many of the great designers I've worked with do what they do. That's why I'm still loyal to the designers that I've known since I was 16. -- Naomi Campbell
At the pinnacle of great design are products so gorgeous and lust-worthy that you want to lick them: a Porsche 911, Samsung's Luxia TV, an Eames lounge chair or anything by Loro Piana. -- Gary Hamel
The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they're not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions. -- Vivienne Westwood
But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me. -- Marc Jacobs
Buffalo is one of America's great designed cities. The interweaving of great architecture, landscape architecture and important historic sites makes Buffalo a must see destination for preservationists, designers, history buffs, and anyone wishing to see an inspiring example of American design. -- Richard Moe
Great design should tell a story. -- Sol Sender
Great design is serious, not solemn -- Paula Scher
Great French design is often about unexpected touches. -- Candice Olson
Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design. -- Christopher Alexander
Clothes are designed for the media, because it's a great show. -- Oleg Cassini
Theaters are great. They're designed to sound good, not for basketball. -- Les Claypool
You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness. -- Zig Ziglar
Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it. -- James Dyson
From a design perspective, the U.S. has always been a great source of inspiration for me. -- Brunello Cucinelli
So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward. -- Genevieve Gorder
If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively, then the design strategy is flawed. -- Tom Watson
Great design will not sell an inferior product, but it will enable a great product to achieve its maximum potential. -- Thomas Watson, Jr.
The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved. -- Walter Pater
It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great. -- Gabrielle Reece
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
The industry's changed so much that you can't just design something, put on a great show, and say, 'Okay, my job is done.' -- Alexander Wang
My studio is designed for atmosphere. I have a really cozy, comfortable room that has a great, huge glass door that views my backyard. -- Geddy Lee
A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable. -- Louis Kahn
Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and I wouldn't under-estimate the value of that, but they're not designed to take care of social needs. -- George Soros
It is sad that so many designers don't know how to make. CAD software can make a bad design look palatable! It is sad that four years can be spent on a 3D design course without making anything! People who are great at designing and making have a great advantage. -- Jonathan Ive
Design is the last great competitive advantage. -- Seth Godin
This is not a great phone. It's an interesting design. -- Rob Enderle
All-around 21st-century artist the great Kanye West at Design Miami/ Basel -- Simon de Pury
Great design is a multi-layered relationship between human life and its environment. -- Naoto Fukasawa
Great web design without functionality is like a sports car with no engine. -- Paul Cookson
The design of everyday things is in great danger of becoming the design of superfluous, overloaded, unnecessary things. -- Donald A. Norman
Really great products, like @nest, have #design baked in from the beginning instead of slapped on at the end. -- John Maeda
Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success. -- Otto von Bismarck
If you stand for great service, low prices, superb quality, stylish design and environmental friendliness, you actually stand for nothing. -- Josh Linkner
I think design, to a degree, is more generous and more humanistic than art, though great art can move us more. -- Paula Scher
I'm not the expert on the great gameplay. I come in for the character design, monsters, atmosphere. I'm not the technician. -- Clive Barker
When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass. -- Richard Steele
My wish is that we design the future of learning. We don't want to be spare parts for a great human computer. -- Sugata Mitra
As consumers we are incredibly discerning, we sense where has been great care in the design, and when there is cynicism and greed. -- Jonathan Ive
Even though I design my own jewelry, one of the great things about my job is being able to bring in really talented collaborators. -- Monika Chiang
I so hate it when I'm quoted to thwart the juices and desires of the great interior design public at large - Daily Express -- Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
The great pyramid is overrated. It's a bad design. The lounge is going to be huge, but the bedroom is going to be tiny. -- Karl Pilkington
It's great to design a beautiful, modern, sleek home like you'd see in a magazine. But if it doesn't suit your lifestyle, it's really wasted. -- Candice Olson
I could design an $800 shoe line it's easy. You use the best materials and you can make beautiful shoes. It's easier than making great shoes for $90. -- Steve Madden
I could design an $800 shoe line; it's easy. You use the best materials and you can make beautiful shoes. It's easier than making great shoes for $90. -- Steve Madden
I was trying to foster a great working relationship between those two departments [design and the writing teams], because classically in animation the two don't get along. -- Walt Dohrn
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
The urgency for reducing climate emissions is too great. We must take our collective experience and use it toward making green design a part of all design. -- Ian Shapiro
Websites are kind of useless. There's so much great web content and design out there, but the ways in which they are being experienced are not being maximized. -- Dhani Harrison
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
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion. -- Ada Louise Huxtable
I don't have a traditional design background, but it's inherent to me. My father was in the fabric industry, and even my grandfather and my great-grandfather were lace manufacturers. -- Stacey Bendet

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