Learning research tells us that the time lag from experiment to feedback is critical.
If there's a simple, easy design principle that binds everything together, it's probably about starting with the people.
We're very concerned with language and how language works. We're trying to engage people rather than dictate how they should be thinking.
The more I find life to be a great design, the more I suspect it to be singular in existence; the more I suspect it to be singular, the more I feel it to be specific and personal; the more I feel it to be personal, the more I think of it to be a mere question; And the more I think of it to be a question, the less I understand the questioner.
The rage for wanting to conclude is one of the most deadly and most fruitless manias to befall humanity. Each religion and each philosophy has pretended to have God to itself, to measure the infinite, and to know the recipe for happiness. What arrogance and what nonsense! I see, to the contrary, that the greatest geniuses and the greatest works have never concluded.
I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.
That's a sound design thing but then we wanted to do music that would not disturb it and at the same time drive it.
So much of design is context.
With all the challenges in the housing market, it's clear we need a new vision for the way we design our homes, our communities-and even our lives.
It was something I was more interested in myself. When I went to see my sister dance at ballet, I was really into costumes and the arts, and my family was also supportive of whatever me and my sister wanted to do. I would say I pushed myself the most to be into design.
One of the criticisms we get is, Does the world need more plastic crap? But you have to look beyond the plastic crap, to the design, to the experience, to the empowering nature of the MakerBot and the community.
I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall be, sooner or later, within the magic circle of the American union.
My work first engaged with the early russian avant-garde; the paintings of moholy-nagy, el lissitzky's 'prouns' and naum gabo's sculptures, but in particular with the work of kasimir malevitch - he was an early influence for me as a representative of the modern avant-garde intersection between art and design.
All gardening is landscape painting.
Advertising is, of course, important because advertise is the final design. It's the last layer that speaks to the customer, that tells them what you have.
My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it in such a way that it will cut together. And how to design the style and tone.
The ultimate design of the Mysteries. . . was to lead us back to the principles from which we descended,. . . a perfect enjoyment of intellectual [spiritual] good.
I've lived too long and I've lived too well.
Design is the art of planning, and it is the art of making things possible.
I had business experience. I had made my living designing and building electronic equipment. Basic business was not new to me, but the music business was completely new to me. I knew nothing about distribution, or any of those things.