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Good people sometimes do bad things. Sometimes they're by accident, sometimes by design. It doesn't make you any less good. It just makes you human. — S.A. Ferkey

Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it. — Jeanne Gang

Above all, John Galliano menswear is all about good design. And men have been short-changed by good design for too long. — John Galliano

Improving your process won't move you from good to great design. It'll move you from bad to average. — Fred Brooks

Good design doesn't date. Bad design does. — Paul Rand

Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent. — Joe Sparano

The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living. — Harry Bertoia

If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture. — Brian Foote

good design...is intelligence made visible"; — Zena O'Connor

Good design is honest. — Dieter Rams

Berthold is still a good typeface, but even Berthold has some less than attractive features, and then I just cut them off because I didn't like them. — Wolfgang Weingart

Hey, I'm a good software engineer, but I'm not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and sandals don't translate to 'good design sense'. — Linus Torvalds

A good game has to have a fun core, which is a one-sentence description of why it's fun. — Paul Reiche III

If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design. — Ralf Speth

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. — Jeffrey Veen

Bad economics teaches that computers can design markets. Good economics teaches that markets can design computers. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

The design of good houses requires an understanding of both the construction materials and the behavior of real humans. — Peter Morville

Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist. — Terence

This is an important rule: a good design is one that changes customer behavior for the better. — Eric Ries

I don't think that success is the premise to what is good or bad. — Ed Benguiat

Good design encourages a viewer to want to learn more. — Alexander Isley

Simplicity, wit, and good typography. — Michael Bierut

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful. — Dieter Rams

...I know good design when I fail to trip over it. — Spider Robinson

Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good. — William McDonough

It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good. — T. S. Eliot

Good design is forever. — Van Day Truex

Good design doesn't stem from intuition, talent, or luck (although I'll take a smidgen of each). It comes from research and understanding. — Anonymous

Good design should reflect a sense of human history-some aspect of where we've come from. — Hartmut Esslinger

The difference between good design and great design is INTELLIGENCE — Tibor Kalman

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all ... good design must primarily serve people. — Thomas J. Watson

As a visual person, I love a creative resume. Putting in a little effort on the design side will show that you care about making things look good. — Sophia Amoruso

One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified ... — Marthe Bibesco

Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health. — Robert Evans

Users notice good design only when it is missing. — Suyog Ketkar

From time to time, I've experimented with sculpture or metal design. It's a good break from just sitting behind the keyboard. — Chad Hurley

Sometimes I hate this place. I mean I really, truly, hate it. It offends my narrow-minded and provincial sensibilities regarding good universe design. — Garon Whited

Apple's goal isn't to make money. Our goal is to design and develop and bring to market good products. — Jonathan Ive

Good work is always done in defiance of management. — Bob Woodward

Good art inspires; Good design motivates. — Otl Aicher

A good design is not a democratic consensus. — Edward De Bono

Good designers copy; great designers steal. — Pablo Picasso

A cool tattoo design is any drawing that would also look good saggy. — Demetri Martin

Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible, — Donald A. Norman

Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual. — Edward Tufte

Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design. — Michael Graves

A metaphor for good information design is a map. Hold any diagram against a map and see how it compares. — Edward Tufte

Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting. — Marc Newson

Good design is partially creativity and innovation, but primarily knowledge and awareness. — Chuck Green

Bold simplicity is the keynote to good design. — Sailor Jerry

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. — Freeman Dyson

We have neither the strength nor the opportunity to accomplish all the good and all the evil which we design. — Luc De Clapiers

Good design can't fix broken business models. — Jeffrey Veen

I fervently believe in research as a necessity for good design, and I teach it that way. — Brenda Laurel

Democracy is threatened by the inertia of good people, by the selfishness of most people, and by the evil designs of a few people. — Stanley King

Good design is serious business. — Alan G. Lafley

Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time, — Charles James

Aesthetic isn't simply about good design for good design's sake. — Noah Kerner

Once evolution gets a good basic design, it tends to throw away the variants and concentrate on the near-infinite diversity within that design. — Dan Simmons

He will take good care to provide what is necessary for our sanctification, provided we are careful to accept everything according to His designs. — Margaret Mary Alacoque

Doing something a long time does not mean you're good. It only means you've done it a long time. — Ed Benguiat

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design. — Stephen Gardiner

You cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people. — Dieter Rams

I believe with religious intensity that good design is for everyone. — Russel Wright

Making good design is easy. It's polishing the half-assed stuff that takes time. — Stefan G. Bucher

I believe that the essence of good design is its ability to sustain long term integrity, to become classic and create a truly captivating home. — Candice Olson

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

Good design isn't about making decisions for your users, it's about making those decisions irrelevant. — Rands

Good design doesn't date. — Harry Seidler

Us visual thinkers like me, be good at things like industrial design, graphics, art, those kind of jobs. — Temple Grandin

Websites should look good from the inside and out — Paul Cookson

Innovation is often the ability to reach into the past and bring back what is good, what is beautiful, what is useful, what is lasting. — Sister Parish

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus. — David Hockney

A good designer will actually design the company. — Donald A. Norman

Design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort so you can get on with the things that matter. — Donna Karan

... everything we do is decent when the mind begins to forget - the design of life; and good when we are forgotten - the design of death. — Djuna Barnes

A cheerful, easy, open countenance will make fools think you a good-natured man, and make designing men think you an undesigning one. — Lord Chesterfield

Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style. — Massimo Vignelli

Not all design is for the general good. — Paola Antonelli

Good design is ubiquitous and forever. — Massimo Vignelli

Follow your dreams wherever they lead you and pay for those dreams with good jobs in software programming and computer design! — Frederick Lenz

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. — Henry David Thoreau

Once you think you have the formula for good design, you're dead. You cease to be a good designer at that point. — Michael Vanderbyl

Good design is clear thinking made visible, bad design is stupidity made visible — Edward Tufte

My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.' — Yves Behar

After all the statistics and calculations are formulated, the one element that breathes life into marketing is good design. — Steve Jobs

Good design doesn't cost, but it pays. — Richard Driehaus

I stayed true to what I thought was good design no matter who it was for. — Michael Graves

You can design a mortgage system that is different without a Fannie and Freddie, but there are principles you have to have, to have a good system. — Jamie Dimon

Is Coors Field a good park to hit in? Yeah. So are Wrigley Field and Camden Yards. I didn't design Coors Field-I just play there. — Todd Helton

Talent alone isn't enough," said Marcus. "You must adhere to good spell design practices. Even the most talented wizards can get careless and sloppy. — Jeremy Kubica

Silent moments are valuable! They give you a good opportunity to design new paths in your life! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Good design is thorough, down to the last detail. — Dieter Rams

Accessible design is good design. — Steve Ballmer

Stick to your knitting (what you're good at), don't compromise, and don't suffer fools. — Simon Campbell

Good design makes a product understandable. — Dieter Rams

In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer. — Steve Wozniak

It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design, and I've devoted much of my career to this. — Michael Graves

It should look as if it has always been like that, as if Nature had made it that way.
That's good design. — Sepp Holzer

The "Be good" concept also comes up when we design our products. We want them to have positive social effects. — Larry Page