"Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design."

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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."

Ron Lewis, American Politician

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

Jef Raskin, American Scientist

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"I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks."

Edward Tufte, American Educator

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"Unfortunately, the client that exists today is still pretty much the prototype design."

Shawn Fanning, American Businessman

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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."

Daniel J. Boorstin, American Historian

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"Design is people."

Jane Jacobs, American Sociologist

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"If we don't have accurate information, if we are not able to tell difficult truth one to another, we will never be able to effectively design a policy for Iraq."

Jack Reed, American Politician

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"Accessible design is good design."

Steve Ballmer, American Businessman

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"The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually."

Kenneth Miller, American Scientist

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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."

Arthur Erickson, Canadian Architect

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"Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se."

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"Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design."

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"Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make."

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"We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next."

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"Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?"

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"The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?"

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"The details are not the details. They make the design."

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"Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose."

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"Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world."

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"In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route."

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