Quotes on Great Design

the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

Such is the condition of life that something is always wanting to happiness. In youth we have warm hopes, which are soon blasted by rashness and negligence, and great designs which are defeated by inexperience. In age, we have knowledge and prudence, without spirit to exert, or motives to prompt them; we are able to plan schemes, and regulate measures, but have not time remaining to bring them to completion.

Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.

Great design will not sell an inferior product, but it will enable a great product to achieve its maximum potential.

A single word often betrays a great design.

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and Meaningful.

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.