"About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs."Manolo Blahnik

"Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan"Eliel Saarinen

"Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes."D.H. Lawrence

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

"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present."Douglas Adams

"Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended."Raymond Loewy

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

"A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success."Otto von Bismarck

"Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch."Tim Berners-Lee

Picasso was in a park when a woman approached him and asked him to draw a portrait of her. Picasso agreed and quickly sketches her. After handing the sketch to her, she is pleased with the likeness and asks how much she owed to him. Picasso replies: "$5,000." The woman screamed, "but it took you only five minutes." "No, madam, it took me all my life," replied Picasso

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."Albert Einstein

"There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination."Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow."Charles Brower

"An image ... is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service."Daniel Boorstin