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"Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design."
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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."
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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."
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"Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance."
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"I have yet to learn that I am not designed to carry the burden of men. Rather, I am designed to carry the love of God so that I might soothe the burden of men."
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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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"God did not simply decide to create heaven and earth. He had a vision."
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"Graphic designers judge a cover by its book."
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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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"Work is designed to be in your own field of calling."
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"Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition."
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"Managing bottom-up change is its own art."
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"The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time."
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"In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself."
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"This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here."
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"One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time."
Time
"Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment."
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"The system continually has to make this choice: it can either continue to exploit a known process and make it more productive, or it can explore a new process at the cost of being less efficient."
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"The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system."
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"We tend to think of the mind of an organization residing in the CEO and the organization's top managers, perhaps with the help of outside consultants that they call in. But that is not really how an organization thinks."
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"The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing."
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