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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."

"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."

"After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either."

"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."

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

"I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving."

"Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail."
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"In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route."

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

"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."

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

"It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do."

"The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life."

"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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