"Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design."

Design, Practice, Theory

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"Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design."

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"A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity."

Fame, Celebrity

"My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided."

Nature, Idea, Culture, Gender

"That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space/time point."

Nature, Difference, Laws

"My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director."

Life, Father, Public

"A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences."

Education, Teaching

"The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws."

Nature, Work, Laws, Thinking

"What gets left out is the narrative between the bullets, which would tell us who's going to do what and how we're going to achieve the generic goals on the list."

Goal, Goals

"The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now."

Time, Work, Idea, Knowledge

"The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art."

Art, Beauty, Science, Leading

"The point of the essay is to change things."

Change,

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"There were IBM logos designed for the film, and there were IBM design consultants working with Kubrick on the layout of the controls and computer screens."

Douglas Trumbull, American Director

Design, Computer, Film

"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."

Jim Henson, American Entertainer

Design, Work, Thought, Selling

"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."

Richard Dawkins, English Scientist

Design, Purpose, Blind, Evil

"Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?"

Robert Shea, American Author

Design, Society, May

"People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people."

Calvin Klein, American Designer

Design, People, Company, Production

"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

Design, Mistake, People, Fools

"I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting."

Jim Henson, American Entertainer

Design, Acting, Theatre

"I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design."

Yukihiro Matsumoto, Japanese Scientist

Design, Consistency, Goal, Tools

"I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response."

Liz Phair, American Musician

Design, Public

"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."

Mike Davidson, American Designer

Design, Successful, Communication, Project