William McDonough Quotes

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

The Creator is not a careless mechanic.

I'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there's a creator who's behind these amazing laws, these amazing events. The symmetry of nature, the structure and order of it.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design.

Christianity believes that God has created an external world that is really there; and because He is a reasonable God, one can expect to be able to find the order of the universe by reason.

Nature expresses a design of love and truth.

When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end.

I do what I love, and I love what I do. I think we all were intended out of a field of energy called love, so you must be love in order to intend.

No acts are random or wasted.

There is in this Universe much of what seems to be design.

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.

The old question of whether there is design is idle. The real question is what is the world, whether or not it have a designer--and that can be revealed only by the study of all nature's particulars.

In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.

To design is to plan and to organize, to order, to relate and to control. In short it embraces all means of opposing disorder and accident. Therefore it signifies a human need and qualifies man’s thinking and doing.

My computer is a very complex gadget and it was designed by many designers, so why must the universe have only a single designer and not many designers?

In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.

Everything in the world is part of a design. Everything has meaning and purpose and a place in the pattern of existence, only it's not always possible to understand what that design is. Only God can understand the design, because he invented it.

I think Beijing deserves the Olympics in order to be with all the rest of the world recognized.

I think life's too complex to be an accident.

Nature never writes a blind hand.

I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem. We are trying to understand how we have got a complicated world, and we have an explanation in terms of a slightly simpler world, and we explain that in terms of a slightly simpler world and it all hangs together down to an ultimately simple world. Now, God is not an explanation of that kind. God himself cannot be simple if he has power to do all the things he is supposed to do.

There is no denying that we are still living in the capitalist world. I think that in order to survive and to change the world, you have to take care of yourself first. You have to survive yourself.

I know this world is ruled by Infinite Intelligence. It required Infinite Intelligence to create it and it requires Infinite Intelligence to keep it on its course ... It is mathematical in its precision.

My own answer to the contrarian question is that most people think the future of the world will be defined by globalization, but the truth is that technology matters more.