"I've always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be in stage setting or interior design or something. I like clutter and I'm quite visually greedy. I can't have things to be plain I have to have things looking interesting... maybe I'm just a frustrated interior designer stuck in a singing career." - Florence WelchTweet
"I am extremely excited to develop and design a brand representative of my life, experiences and style. Working closely with Cherokee will help establish a worldwide presence with best-in-class retailers and category leaders." - Alessandra AmbrosioTweet
"When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space." - Tadao AndoTweet
"But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs." - Niklaus WirthTweet
"Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do." - Paul GrahamTweet
"The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena." - Jaron LanierTweet
"I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting." - Jim HensonTweet
"A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes - as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was." - Jeffrey KlugerTweet
"Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club." - Jack NicklausTweet
"I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray." - Seymoure CrayTweet