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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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"People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people."
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"Graphic designers judge a cover by its book."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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"Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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"So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed."
Design


"The Olympics: not one of my better memories."
Sports


"I would make my mom buy me the toy doctor kit."
Family


"I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice."
Thought


"What was most important to me at the Olympics was going out there and performing my best. When I messed up the first jump combination, which was my big move, it hit me that I messed up the program of my life."
Life


"I was always very strong in math, physics and calculus."
Childhood


"I am not really sure how I got interested in medicine."
Career


"Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned."
Life


"My skating is a very emotional thing that comes from the heart, never doing it for the medal."
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"I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true."
Time
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