Purposeful Design Quotes

Intelligent design is a modest position theologically and philosophically. It attributes the complexity and diversity of life to intelligence, but does not identify that intelligence with the God of any religious faith or philosophical system.

I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape.

The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.

People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design.

Design is nothing if not decision making.

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren't random.

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.

Undirected natural processes like the Darwinian mechanism are incapable of generating the specified complexity that exists in biological organisms … the natural sciences need to leave room for design.

Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.

Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product.

God made man because he loved to listen to stories.

Some of us might look like accidents, but I mean none of us is in fact an accident.

Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

I never start anything with a really overt, political, or even exactly artistic mission statement.

Form follows function.

I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in.

Everything God does has purpose and intention behind that design. It is a master design, and every little thing has its proper place and function.

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

We are not to suppose, that there is any violent exertion of power, such as is required in order to produce a great event in little time; in nature, we find no deficiency in respect of time, nor any limitation with regard to power. But time is not made to flow in vain; nor does there ever appear the exertion of superfluous power, or the manifestation of design, not calculated in wisdom to effect some general end.

Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature; not any thing framed to fill up empty cantons, and unncecessary spaces.

You didn't accidentally get your personality, looks and gifts. You were designed on purpose to be the way you are. You have what you need to fulfill your destiny.

Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things.

Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor.

Nature does nothing in vain.