"Luck is the residue of design."

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"Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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

Calvin Klein, American Designer

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"Graphic designers judge a cover by its book."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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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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"Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation."

William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet

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"All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it."

Vera Wang, American Designer

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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

Design, First

"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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"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."

Daniel Libeskind, Polish Architect

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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."

Yukihiro Matsumoto, Japanese Scientist

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"If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit."

Effort

"I don't care if I was a ditch-digger at a dollar a day, I'd want to do my job better than the fellow next to me. I'd want to be the best at whatever I do."

Care

"A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance."

Chance

"A full mind is an empty bat."

Mind

"Cobb lived off the field as though he wished to live forever. He lived on the field as though it was his last day."

Sports

"Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late."

Sports

"I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault."

Courage

"It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind."

Honor

"The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball."

Man

"Problems are the price you pay for progress."

Progress