"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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"Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service."

Steve Jobs, American Businessman

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"Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it."

Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish Novelist

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"My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it in such a way that it will cut together. And how to design the style and tone."

Jay Roach, American Director

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"I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical."

Giorgio Armani, Italian Designer

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"The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect."

Carson McCullers, American Novelist

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"I don't design clothes, I design dreams."

Ralph Lauren, American Designer

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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."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture."

Ellen DeGeneres, American Comedian

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

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"At our company, our Design and Construction Consulting Service Team not only helps eliminate the risks inherent in the construction process, they typically save our clients 5% - 10% on overall construction costs. They also help make sure projects come in on time."

Roger Staubach, American Athlete

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"Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se."

Quality

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

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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."

Life

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

Time

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

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"Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make."

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

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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?"

Question

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

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"Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?"

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