My strengths as a businessman lie in the design and sale of women’s shoes, and I have never been comfortable with complicated or technical legal or business documents. – Steve Madden
If you have to design something, choose things that we need as opposed to frivolous things that we might just want for a month or two for bragging rights. – Saul Griffith
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
Borderline embarrassing fact: I used to have a pseudo line when I was seven called Zizzy Fashion. I love clothing, and I would eventually like to design as well as act. – Zoey Deutch
Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet’s needs. – Yves Behar
I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design. – Yukihiro Matsumoto
With fashion, you really need to understand the aspects of construction. Not just design on an iPad. – Tim Gunn
In the end, I hope there’s a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer. – Steve Wozniak
I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect. – Zooey Deschanel
As much as we think of performance management as numeric and thus perfectly quantifiable, it is as much a product of context and social science as the products we design and develop. – Steven Sinofsky
Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don’t care as much about attractive sites and pretty design. – Tim Berners-Lee
I hate going out for lunch during a workday because it slows down my pace and ruins my rhythm. I prefer to eat at my desk. Actually, I wander around the design studio with a plate in my hand as I dine on, for example, salmon sashimi and a salad of tomatoes and mozzarella. I often have a bit of dark chocolate after lunch. – Tom Ford
Nest really came out of a process where I was trying to design the most connected and the most green home that I knew of. I was curious of just about everything that goes into a home and building a home. – Tony Fadell
I always have music playing in my studio when I design. It really gets me in the mood and allows me to focus. – Yigal Azrouel
The principal and only way to make an heirloom product is to design something that people will need not just this year, but for the next 50 or 100 years. – Saul Griffith
Women have their own strengths, like fashion. In technology, we can contribute in a big way in terms of the design of the user interface. – Weili Dai
There is an immediate payoff to intelligent design: it destroys the atheistic legacy of Darwinian evolution. Intelligent design makes it impossible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist. – William A. Dembski
You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality. – Walt Disney
I might want to open a hotel and design all the rooms. Or maybe a museum that lets me curate all the events. – Theophilus London
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
People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that’s ok. – Zaha Hadid
We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design. – Steve Albini
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society. – Walter Gropius
Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design. – Sergio Aragones
If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny. – Steve Wozniak
Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I’m not good at going out loosely and saying, ‘Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he’ll figure it out.’ I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, ‘Let’s walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.’ – Tarsem Singh