“I was very much amused by the recent Newsweek article where he [Jobs] said, "I have a few good designs in me still." He never had any designs. He has not designed a single product. Woz (Steve Wozniak) designed the Apple II. Ken Rothmuller and others designed Lisa. My team and I designed the Macintosh. Wendell Sanders designed the Apple III. What did Jobs design? Nothing.”

“Architects know that some kinds of design problems are more personal than others. One of the cleanest, most abstract design problems is designing bridges. There your job is largely a matter of spanning a given distance with the least material. The other end of the spectrum is designing chairs. Chair designers have to spend their time thinking about human butts.”

Paul Graham (1964) English programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist

“It is not my design to drink or to sleep, but my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.”

Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658) English military and political leader

“It’s not too much to say that every indication of design in the universe is evidence against the omnipotence of the designer. For what do we mean by ‘design?”

John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) British philosopher and political economist

“My life appeared to me as unnatural, uncertain and incredible as the design on the pencase I am using at this moment. It seems that a painter who has been possessed, perhaps a perfectionist, has painted the cover of this pencase. Often, when I look at this design, it seems familiar; perhaps it is because of this design that I write or perhaps this design makes me write.”

Sadegh Hedayat book The Blind Owl

“I did not design this game; I did not name the stakes. I just happen to like apples; and I am not afraid of snakes.”

Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist

“Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.”

Richard Stallman (1953) American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project

“Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.”

Jef Raskin book The Humane Interface

“Software has to be designed by hackers who understand design, not designers who know a little about software. If you can't design software as well as implement it, don't start a startup.”

Paul Graham (1964) English programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist

“Rest in my arms
Sleep in my bed
There's a design
To what I did and said”

Sufjan Stevens (1975) American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist