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

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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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"When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential."

Christine Gregoire, American Politician

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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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"Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design."

Tim Berners Lee, English Inventor

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"So much of it is the design of the shot or the motion of the character; it's the work you do so that it has the same things that are in the movie. In just a few frames it's got to communicate something clearly and dramatically."

Dennis Muren, American Artist

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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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"The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design."

Daniel Keys Moran, American Writer

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"Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department."

Tom Peters, American Businessman

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"Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods."

Genevieve Gorder, American Designer

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"It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people."

Genevieve Gorder, American Designer

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

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

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

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"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."

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

Time

"It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act."

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"Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic."

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"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."

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

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