Mark Parker Quotes

We usually don't have applications in mind. They come later.

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

I'm a designer, and for me, things are always evolving, and such evolution is necessary.

Creativity is the process that gives life to a new product.

Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.

When you say 'design,' everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it's an emotive word. Everybody thinks it's how something looks, whereas for me, design is pretty much everything.

When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.

I'm an inventor.

It's incredibly exciting to know people are using and living with the things I create.

It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

Everything we do is designed, whether we're producing a magazine, a website, or a bridge. Design is really the creative invention that designs everything.

Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.

A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.

Our principal role as designers is to accelerate new ideas and the adoption of new ideas.

I believe that the ability to innovate and to be creative are teachable processes. There are ways by which people can systematically innovate or systematically become creative.

Deep in the culture of Apple is this sense and understanding of design, developing, and making. Form and the material and process - they are beautifully intertwined - completely connected.

I ended up going to do a matches program at the state for industrial design. And from there, I got hired at IDEO to joint their design team there - and basically, you are starting as an industrial designer to design products - and then kept asking the question, 'What else can design accomplish? What else can design do?'

Design has always been at the heart of our business.

A lot of companies are able to do without design. A few companies are able to do without creativity. A very few. Creativity is crucial to your business.

Socialcam shares Autodesk's mission of helping everybody imagine, design, and create a better world.

When you're designing and inventing the way I did, every minute of your life is put - every neuron in your brain into trying to think about the little code and how you can maybe have one less line of code and a little bit more straightforward from the beginning to the answer. And you don't have time to think about companies and products and how would I build this. So Steve Jobs and I were a very necessary pair.

Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era.

What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful . . . Great designers also pursue a mission. Great designers design with mankind in mind . . . The crossroads of science and art, innovation and inspiration are what I love about design.

Design is everything.