Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.
Adam Ferguson

Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do.
Paul Graham

For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.
James Rouse

For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.
Kim Campbell

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.
Stephen Gardiner

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.
Christian Lacroix

God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.
Mary Astell

Golf course design is exciting.
Tom Kite

Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design.
Stephen Gardiner

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.
Freeman Thomas

Good design doesn't date.
Harry Seidler

Good design is good business.
Thomas J. Watson

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.
Dieter Rams

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
George Santayana

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn

How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?
Kinky Friedman

I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots.
James Cameron

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
John Adams

I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.
Isambard K. Brunel

I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive.
Joseph Lancaster