I’ve got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

I don’t want to use my creative energy on somebody else’s user interface.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.

Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.

I call architecture frozen music.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.

The key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale.

If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn’t be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers.

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they’re not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

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

There’s so many bits on a car these days it’s hard to know where everything is. You have a bit of an idea but if you are behind someone and you suddenly change direction it’s hard to know exactly where the car is.

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

I love designing at the moment, I’m so happy with my work.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

We made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them.

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

Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.

The artist in me cries out for design.

The path to the CEO’s office should not be through the CFO’s office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

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.

We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn’t worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often ‚crash‘ when we tried to use them.

The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.

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.

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

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.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

I love dresses, and I’ve definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.

Frank Lloyd Wright… his things were beautiful but not very functional.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare’s plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

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.

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

The importance of logo into today’s fashion is un! be! Lievable!

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

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.

I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!

I have so many designs and video ideas and lyrics in my head, so I always try to be productive.