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It's tens of millions of calculations just to design one connection between a piece of structural steel and another piece of structural steel.

It's when we're given choice that we sit with the gods and design ourselves.

It takes a great deal of courage and independence to decide to design your own image instead of the one that society rewards, but it gets easier as you go along.

It took me a few seconds to draw it, but it took me 34 years to learn how to draw it in a few seconds.

It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this

It was an effort to include intelligent design and treat it as science, disparaging evolution along the way. That will not stand.

It wasn't an architect or a designer who invented objects, but an artisan.

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.

It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.

It will not be possible to rule out the supposition that the process of evolution may be guided by an intelligent design.

It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.

It would be very interesting to design objects for everyday life, something where the ideas that are expressed can be launched into society.

I used to design for my body, which was flat-chested with big hips. That's why my clothes were tight on top with full skirts.

I used to have a gun made every month; I would get another pistol made that I would design. I'm very into the military and police stuff like that.

I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies us with energy which vice can never resist; that it was always in our power to obstruct, by his own death, the designs of an enemy who aimed at less than our lives.

I’ve always been very detail orientated, but I have gone from embellishment to nudity - from designing for a woman that likes to be dressed to designing for a woman that likes to be undressed.

I've always felt that the placement of a man's testicles is an eloquent argument against intelligent design.

I've always considered myself a graphic artists - a draftsman - as opposed to a typist. I do still work on a drawing table. At times drawing on a computer feels like I'm drawing on an Etch-a-Sketch.

I've always loved interior design.

I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.

I've always thought of the sky as, like, an open canvas. When I was a kid and I looked at the sky, I always remember being able to daydream, just looking at the sky, being creative, being able to design things. What would happen if we had no sky? Where would we be? Well, obviously, scientifically, without an atmosphere, we'd all be dead.

I've been putting together the story with Rob and putting all the details of it together and looking at all the various designs they have for the toys and stuff, it's pretty exciting.

I've always wanted to get involved with designing a video game.

I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving.

I've been working with contractors designing and building a house on a nonstop basis since I learned about all these systems of audio, construction, electricity, energy, water systems.

I've been working with Five Four. The partnership started as one monthly collaboration, but now I'm the creative design director. There are still going to be collaborations for monthly drops, but we are launching e-commerce.

I've never had anyone define purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live according to original design.

I've learned a lot about stage-managing for illustration. Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image. I've also learned to making big-scale design decisions early.

I've generally got a good eye for design and proportion.

I've lived too long and I've lived too well.

I've never been a puppeteer, I conceive and I write and I design and I direct. And not just puppets. I direct actors, I direct dancers, I direct singers, I direct films. I also direct puppeteers. I'm really a theatre maker, but there's not a word for that.

I've never been one like, "Oh, these are my songs" - that was done out of necessity, because there was no one to help. I have 90 percent of it written; that way, we can go on the road, be tight and have it ready to go for next year. I know I said I didn't have a grand design, but I think it's going to be like Marvin Gaye meets The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

I've no grand designs to conquer the music industry, but I'd love to be able to tell my mates that I'm playing in a pub in Camden one night.

I venture on assuring you that I regard the design formed by you and your friends with sincere interest, and in particular wish well to all the efforts you may make on behalf of individual freedom and independence as opposed to what is termed Collectivism.

I've teamed up with BaubleBar to curate a collection of gorgeous jewelry pieces. I worked closely with the BaubleBar team to design a collection that encompasses my style and all of my go to pieces.

I've never had a problem with a dumb client. There is no such thing as a bad client. Part of our job is to do good work and get the client to accept it.

I wanted to breathe new life into the timeless trend of past, present and future. These unique designs celebrate the bride and groom's passage through their new life together.

I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself.

I wanna design a video game where you'd have to take care of all the people shot in all the other video games.

I want Apple to continue to innovate. I want them to be on time. I want them to be leaders. And my big concern with Apple recently has been they can't build what they're designing.

I wanted to design a chair which looked like a shrub pruned to look like a chair.

I want people to understand that design is so much more than cute chairs - that it is first and foremost everything that is around us in our life.

I want industrial design to be a public subject. I want people to love objects the way they love clothing.

I want to design dresses for the purposeful woman. Women who have passion - whether that be work - or something outside of work.

I want to do television, film, music and designing. I want to do it all!

I want to be a woman of focus. I don't want to live by default, but by design.

I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing, like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire.

I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent.

I want to know: How does a space suit on Mars work? Show me how it is pressurized, and how it is cooled. What's the glove design? None of that stuff can be bought off the rack. It does not exist. You can't just go to SpaceMart and buy those things.