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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."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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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."

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"Graphic designers judge a cover by its book."

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"Often we don't see the majesty of God's design because we're caught up in the mediocrity of our own designs."

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"Work is designed to be in your own field of calling."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"God did not simply decide to create heaven and earth. He had a vision."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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

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"The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants."

Michael Dell, American Businessman

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"Your body is a complete marvel. The more you study its anatomy and how each part works in harmony, the more you will be convinced that you didn't just evolve. You were designed from the beginning by the hand of a Master."

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

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

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

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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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