120 quotes found
“Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.”
“I believe Im very normal. Im hyper-normal. Im 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 beca...”
“Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.”
“Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.”
“Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.”
“Initially, it was the unpractical in fashion that brought me to design my own line. I felt that it was much more attractive to cut clothes with respect for the living, three-dimensional body rather...”
“I don't design clothes, I design dreams.”
“Eventually everything connects — people, ideas, objects...the quality of the connections is the key to quality per se...I don't believe in this 'gifted few' concept, just in people doing things the...”
“You see, the penis, it's so graceless, wouldn't you agree? When it's cold and shrivelled up, it looks like W.H. Auden in his old age; when it's hot, it flops and dangles about in a ridiculous way; ...”
“When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.”
“In reality, though, most of the time we don’t choose the best option—we choose the first reasonable option, a strategy known as satisficing.”
“It can get a little complicated when you have the expectation that you’re supposed to live Happily Ever After with this person when they were designed to stay with you for just a little while. Our ...”
“I am a lifelong lover of form–content interplay, and this book is no exception. As with several of my previous books, I have had the chance to typeset it down to the finest level of detail, and my ...”
“Sometimes I hate this place. I mean I really, truly, hate it. It offends my narrow-minded and provincial sensibilities regarding good universe design.”
“for Steve, less is always more, simpler is always better. Therefore, if you can build a glass box with fewer elements, it’s better, it’s simpler, and it’s at the forefront of technology. That’s whe...”
“Conjugation of the irregular verb “to design”:I create, You interfere, He gets in the way.We cooperate, You obstruct, They conspire.”
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
“Embrace iteration as the road to improvement, but don't let that lull you into rolling out poorly-thought-out crap.”
“Early on, Mike Markkula had taught Jobs to "impute" - to understand that people do judge a book by its cover - and therefore to make sure all the trappings and packaging of Apple signaled that ther...”
“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 b...”
