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"Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?"
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"People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people."
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"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
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"I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response."
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"I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate."
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"I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving."
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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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"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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"Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications."
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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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"It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process."
Thought

"The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach."
Houses

"The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden."
Design

"In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts."
Art

"Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights."
Houses

"It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings."
Man

"The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition."
Nature

"The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark."
Balance

"The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character."
Life

"Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest."
Architecture
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