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"Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do."
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"I have had this view of the optimization of the electrode design for a long time. Historically we went through various phases in the work and eventually worked on large sheets - very large sheets - of palladium."
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"The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design."
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"Graphic designers judge a cover by its book."
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"It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this."
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"Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution."
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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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"Work is designed to be in your own field of calling."
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"I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things."
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"It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books."
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"It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution."
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"Small-business customers are very conservative and very cheap. We don't have to explain ourselves for the most part."
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"For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete."
People

"Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'."
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"A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen."
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"We don't have to go that far to sell our beer because our immediate accounts sell so much. Places that sold 10 cases before, now they're selling 30."
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"Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do."
Design
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