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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Author:
Douglas Adams
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I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
Author:
John Adams
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We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design.
Author:
Steve Albini
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Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.
Author:
Christopher Alexander
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I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look.
Author:
Debbie Allen
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But my point is that you design something in the end that precludes any unhealthy trading practices that are not going to serve your environmental or your economic objectives but now is not the time to do it.
Author:
John Anderson
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The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.
Author:
Tadao Ando
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When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space.
Author:
Tadao Ando
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I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself.
Author:
Ursula Andress
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Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design.
Author:
Sergio Aragones
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I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.
Author:
Giorgio Armani
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God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.
Author:
Mary Astell
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The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.
Author:
Mary Astell
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But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?
Author:
Mary Astell
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The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all.
Author:
Colleen Atwood
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Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
Author:
Marcus Aurelius
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One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.
Author:
Ralph Bakshi
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Accessible design is good design.
Author:
Steve Ballmer
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Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.
Author:
Isaac Barrow
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The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995.
Author:
Charles Bass
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In its report, the Cox Committee concludes that China is using stolen U.S. design information to speed up its deployment of a new nuclear missile force.
Author:
Charles Bass
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Design is an unknown.
Author:
Geoffrey Beene
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We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.
Author:
Michael Behe
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Each flicker and fade narrates the silhouette of a city's dreams, dancing through the concrete illusions born at the intersection of dusk and neon.
Author:
Emily Grayson
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Just as dancers find rhythm in each movement, urban lightscapes pulse softly, weaving an energy blueprint that redefines our sense of belonging in a thrumming city.
Author:
Mira Caldera
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The choreography of urban lightscapes weaves threads of motion and stillness, painting cities not just as places to inhabit, but as living art dialogs overtime.
Author:
Nova Starlossrich
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In the urban maze, light becomes our compass, guiding invisible stories as dances unfold in synchrony beyond concrete and steel.
Author:
Avery Morgan
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In the urban night, every flicker is a storyteller, weaving silent dialogues that echo through concrete halls, igniting the colors architects forgot to marinate in during the day.
Author:
Lena Kirst
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The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
Author:
Harry Bertoia
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The harmony of thought finds its cadence in contrast, revealing how chaotic dualities can weave their symbiotic dance.
Author:
Althea Summers
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In a realm where chaos tempts yet a foundational equity jamais presents, our greatest imagination dances on the thin line that interweaves asymmetric arcs into harmonized tiers.
Author:
Alina Romero
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I have never seen a game's graphics look so sharp and clean. The sound design for the game is also unique on the Xbox. The memory on this system allowed us to provide the user with 5.1 Dolby surround sound for home theatre owners.
Author:
Don Bluth
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Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.
Author:
Pierre Bonnard
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An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.
Author:
Daniel Boorstin
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We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.
Author:
David Brainerd
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I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.
Author:
David Brainerd
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Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.
Author:
David Bromstad
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An intentional space fosters playful chaos, weaving happenstance into the fabric of agenda; membranes dissolve when creativity pauses to (un)sketch the map. They become catalysts--enhancing revelations over regimens.
Author:
Mia Chinh
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By weaving structured intention with instances of whimsy, we create a fertile tableau on which serendipity dances in harmony.
Author:
Amelia Fotheringham
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Serendipity is not nestled away in chance; it's woven into the fabric of thoughtful design, inviting wonder to collide with intent.
Author:
Maxine Caldbehavior
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Thus, a deliberate space invites miracles; by constructing with whimsy while fortressing form, we dignify the leap from quaint scheduling time to astonishing spontaneity.
Author:
Selene Waite
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True magic lies not in the random folds of existence, but in the purposefully crafted niches where improvisation blooms between the lines. Coordianting unplanned moments fuels innovation.
Author:
Esme Prior
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Angle the horizon just right, color custom appointments with curiosity, and you'll likely trip over the gold-laden surprises your soul rightly ventures into.
Author:
Adrian Castell
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By acknowledging the unpredictable notes within our meticulously arranged scores, we invite a symphony of serendipity to enliven the predefined pathways of daily life.
Author:
Clara Rudin
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In an artfully curated setting, accidents study us like performers on a stage; every density restless with potential encounters, weaving connections during intermissions embracing chaos within design.
Author:
Elise Diggs
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Where layout meets liminality, chance blooms its radiant chaos; curating spontaneity amidst intention unlocks not just encounters, but revolutions.
Author:
Eliana Hayes
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Designy thinking allows the premises for the accidental blooms--where intention cultivates, coincidence flourishes.
Author:
Rowan Fitzgerald
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Life thrives at the intersection of intention and chance, where carefully crafted spaces invite the unexpected to unfold.
Author:
Eliazer Vos
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True innovation springs from the unseen dance of possibilities we cultivate within structured spaces, where spontaneity becomes the seed of creativity.
Author:
Sage Leroy
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I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.
Author:
Isambard Brunel
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I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots.
Author:
James Cameron
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For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.
Author:
Kim Campbell
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After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America.
Author:
Russ Carnahan
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Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Author:
Miguel Cervantes
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Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.
Author:
Ivan Chermayeff
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By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.
Author:
Steven Chu
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Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to.
Author:
Ethan Coen
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Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be.
Author:
Dennis Conner
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Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair.
Author:
David Crane
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I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.
Author:
Seymoure Cray
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I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate.
Author:
Mike Davidson
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Whenever I design any variant, or when anybody sends me one, I always say if at all possible within the context of the game don't have two home supply centers touching each other.
Author:
Fred Davis
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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.
Author:
Richard Dawkins
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The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.
Author:
Michael Dell
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Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.
Author:
Norm Dicks
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You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
Author:
Walt Disney
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When you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first!
Author:
Donald Douglas
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I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.
Author:
K. Drexler
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While I was at college studying design I decided to paint. I was also greatly inspired by the colours that I had seen on my travels in the Brazilian Rain forest.
Author:
John Dyer
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A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.
Author:
Freeman Dyson
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To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.
Author:
Charles Eames
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The details are not the details. They make the design.
Author:
Charles Eames
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Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.
Author:
Charles Eames
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Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.
Author:
Charles Eames
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No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.
Author:
Michael Ende
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Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications.
Author:
Drew Endy
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No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.
Author:
Arthur Erickson
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After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.
Author:
Arthur Erickson
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Unfortunately, the client that exists today is still pretty much the prototype design.
Author:
Shawn Fanning
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The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.
Author:
Leo Fender
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Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.
Author:
Adam Ferguson
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Internet safety begins at home and that is why my legislation would require the Federal Trade Commission to design and publish a unique website to serve as a clearinghouse and resource for parents, teachers and children for information on the dangers of surfing the Internet.
Author:
Mike Fitzpatrick
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I have had this view of the optimization of the electrode design for a long time. Historically we went through various phases in the work and eventually worked on large sheets - very large sheets - of palladium.
Author:
Martin Fleischmann
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Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families. However, they refused to include any of those who were removed in the design of their own memorial.
Author:
Malcolm Fraser
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To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
Author:
Marilyn French
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How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?
Author:
Kinky Friedman
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The artist in me cries out for design.
Author:
Robert Frost
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I design for the woman who loves being a woman.
Author:
Diane Furstenberg
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I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May '43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in '42 - even in my position. This aircraft didn't have any priority in design or production.
Author:
Adolf Galland
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Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design.
Author:
Stephen Gardiner
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The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.
Author:
Stephen Gardiner
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User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process.
Author:
Jesse Garrett
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Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
Author:
Bill Gates
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Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.
Author:
Carlos Ghosn
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Intelligent design itself does not have any content.
Author:
George Gilder
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There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.
Author:
Rudy Giuliani
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To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
Author:
Charles Givens
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That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them.
Author:
Genevieve Gorder
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Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.
Author:
Genevieve Gorder
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It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.
Author:
Genevieve Gorder
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I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really convinced me of how powerful a thing design is. It's not just an aesthetic decoration.
Author:
Genevieve Gorder
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Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do.
Author:
Paul Graham
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It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this.
Author:
Michael Graves
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When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.
Author:
Christine Gregoire
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Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response.
Author:
April Greiman
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And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight.
Author:
Umberto Guidoni
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We want people to realize you are at a design school, not a land grant college. The way we look says a great deal about who we are.
Author:
James Hall
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I don't set goals. Like, that's what I want to be doing however many years from now. I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes.
Author:
Ayumi Hamasaki
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We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world.
Author:
Jim Henson
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I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.
Author:
Jim Henson
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The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.
Author:
Anthony Holden
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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
Author:
David Hume
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Design is people.
Author:
Jane Jacobs
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Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Author:
Steve Jobs
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Design works if it's authentic, inspired, and has a clear point of view. It can't be a collection of input.
Author:
Ron Johnson
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Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.
Author:
Junius
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I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.
Author:
Mikhail Kalashnikov
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Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.
Author:
Donna Karan
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Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.
Author:
Kevin Kelly
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Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.
Author:
Kevin Kelly
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And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.
Author:
Thomas Keneally
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Golf course design is exciting.
Author:
Tom Kite
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People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.
Author:
Calvin Klein
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They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.
Author:
Christian Lacroix
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French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.
Author:
Christian Lacroix
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I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive.
Author:
Joseph Lancaster
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Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.
Author:
John Langdon
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I don't design clothes, I design dreams.
Author:
Ralph Lauren
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Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
Author:
David Lawrence
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Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
Author:
Tim Lee
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We must carefully consider card security solutions, such as adding photographs or machine-readable electronic strips, so to prevent further breaches of individual privacy that could result from changes to the design of Social Security Cards.
Author:
Ron Lewis
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And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole.
Author:
Daniel Libeskind
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I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.
Author:
Daniel Libeskind
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If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the jeans, the design of belts and boots, the haircut, the number and size of earrings.
Author:
Lance Loud
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Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actually.
Author:
Yukihiro Matsumoto
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I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.
Author:
Yukihiro Matsumoto
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Well, yes, I mean, I think that, you know, my sources suggest that there's a lot of support for the notion that there is a lot of Koran abuse and that it was very much a systematic design, not just an aberration.
Author:
Jane Mayer
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I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.
Author:
Jonathan Mayhew
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It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus in on the band, but instead focused in on a theme.
Author:
Mike McCready
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The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
Author:
Carson McCullers
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Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one.
Author:
David McFadden
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The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually.
Author:
Kenneth Miller
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The new strategy is to teach intelligent design without calling it intelligent design.
Author:
Kenneth Miller
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The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question.
Author:
Kenneth Miller
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We opened a design center in the South of England last year as part of our strategy for being close to our customers and developing innovative products for exciting new markets.
Author:
David Milne
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Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.
Author:
Clement Mok
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My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.
Author:
Robert Moog
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The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design.
Author:
Daniel Moran
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In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
Author:
Samuel Morison