Famous Quotes About design

I don't design down to a price.

I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.

When you say 'design,' everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it's an emotive word. Everybody thinks it's how something looks, whereas for me, design is pretty much everything.

I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

The details are not the details. They make the design.

I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right.

When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.

I've always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be in stage setting or interior design or something. I like clutter and I'm quite visually greedy. I can't have things to be plain I have to have things looking interesting... maybe I'm just a frustrated interior designer stuck in a singing career.