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.

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design but what's missing is the eyebrows.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions and see what they would be at as often as it is practicable and to make this custom the more significant practice it first upon yourself.

In giving us children God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet according to His perfect design it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.

The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like although that was part of it. Primarily it was how it worked. To design something really well you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something chew it up not just quickly swallow it.

In most people's vocabularies design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me nothing could be further from the meaning of design.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good I should run for my life.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course if you dig deeper it's really how it works.

A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience the better design we will have.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

If you don't design your own life plan chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

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

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

Outside of the chair the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one.

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

Design is an unknown.

I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.

The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.

A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.

Design is people.

What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together.

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

In my opinion no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.