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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 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."

"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."

"I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc."
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"In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function."

"I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention."

"The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth."
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