When you work with web design companies in San Francisco, you end up with a bunch of twenty-somethings who have their own cultural peculiarities, including obscurity for its own sake. You give those guys a website for a banking institution and they screw it up, because they are designing for themselves.

Brenda Laurel

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

Adam Osborne

Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.

Adam Savage

I have been fully involved in designing my stage shows; it's important to me to do something really unique and almost off-the-wall to bring the music and the visuals together. I love design and actually went to school for a bit for graphic design, so it isn't so much 'pressure' for me; it's a way to be creative, and I really enjoy it.

Afrojack

I'm personally not terribly interested in designing wholesome characters, so I don't have many variations to offer.

Akira Toriyama

Designing characters for 'Dragon Quest' is fun but difficult work.

Akira Toriyama

I have a cell phone that doesn't behave like a phone: It behaves like a computer that makes calls. Computers are becoming an integral part of daily life. And if people don't start designing them to be more user-friendly, then an even larger part of the population is going to be left out of even more stuff.

Alan Cooper

And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time in planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope with them, than you do for things to go right.

Alan Shepard

I need to be performing. I need to be acting. I need to be designing a condo and ripping down walls and buying new plates and looking at fashion magazines. There always has to be some movement in the artistic department for me to not get really, really low.

Alanis Morissette

I've been a fashion model for 15 years and designing is just an extension of my career. I still plan on modeling lingerie, but at the same time this is a business transition that I plan to have around for a long time.

Alessandra Ambrosio

I'm interested in designing for posterity.

Alexander McQueen

If you're designing out of a purely creative place, not thinking of the girl, then the consumer's not going to take notice.

Alexander Wang

Designing a product and understanding how it filters through into the market and into the rest of the company is very important to me.

Alexander Wang

I seem to always start a collection by designing outerwear and jackets.

Alexander Wang

I was extremely lucky as I was in one of the last generations of British students who went to university and had my fees paid, and I had a grant as well. I also earned money from my waitressing and designing and selling my own range of dinosaur cards.

Alice Roberts

Developmental scientists like me explore the basic science of learning by designing controlled experiments.

Alison Gopnik

It was a lot of hard work, but everyone loved my Amy Childs' Collection, so I decided to have a boutique as well as my salon. I love designing my own dresses, and everyone is loving the collection. I can't believe how well the boutique and the clothing online is going.

Amy Childs

I simply do the things that inspire me, be that snowboarding, designing clothing, or dancing.

Amy Purdy

IT put India on the map of the world and told Indians that they are somebody in the world. There is something about technology that is very empowering: 'We are designing software for the best companies in the world.'

Anand Giridharadas

While designing, sewing and cutting patterns for clients, my mother was always telling me to make sure the upper part of the body was balanced with the lower part, an A-line skirt to minimize hips or shoulder pads if a client was smaller on top. I was training my eye to create balance.

Anastasia Soare

In grade school, my mother, who was a professional tailor, would make all my clothes. I became obsessed with designing them myself.

Anastasia Soare