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

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

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

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

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

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference