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I won't give up my day job of design. -- Kathy Ireland
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. -- Steve Jobs
I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator. -- Trudi Canavan
I have always loved clothes, and the opportunity to design my own line could not be missed. It's a dream job. -- Jasmine Guinness
The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do. -- Freeman Dyson
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
Cordless vacuums are designed for quick jobs, but you need enough power to do the job; you don't want the power waning over time. -- James Dyson
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
Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works. -- Steve Jobs
Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient use of fewer tax dollars. -- Kenneth Blackwell
In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. -- Steve Jobs
I wear a lot of different hats - from writer to producer and artist. We all do 5 or 6 jobs, everything from creating our own graphic design to actually recording and the whole bit. -- William Bell
You know it's my job to visualize, what is literal or audible, so I designed all the characters, and I designed what they do and how they should do it and so on. -- Gerald Scarfe
I live by a man's code, designed to fit a man's world, yet at the same time I never forget that a woman's first job is to choose the right shade of lipstick. -- Carole Lombard
When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that,' we say 'Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?' Few are up to the task. -- Yves Behar
A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have. -- Steve Jobs
Design is about creating spaces for people to enjoy and of course, creating moments where you elevate the spirit, but 'design for good' is figuring out a program that not only creates better spaces, but creates jobs, creates new industry and really kind of raises the conversation about how we rebuild. -- Cameron Sinclair
There are lots of examples of routine, middle-skilled jobs that involve relatively structured tasks, and those are the jobs that are being eliminated the fastest. Those kinds of jobs are easier for our friends in the artificial intelligence community to design robots to handle them. They could be software robots; they could be physical robots. -- Erik Brynjolfsson
Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together. -- Steve Jobs
The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it. -- Steve Jobs
Every little job counts. Design counts. -- Michael Bierut
The most important job of an entrepreneur is to design the business before there is a business. -- Robert Kiyosaki
The best way to accomplish serious design ... is to be totally and completely unqualified for the job. -- Paula Scher
Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it. -- Seth Godin
Don't get too caught up in making money or having a job, get excited about the fact that you can design your life. -- Darren Johnson
Design job fell on me. I didn't want to do it. It was an accident. For the first 10 years I said, "Tomorrow I'm stopping." -- Sonia Rykiel

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