"After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared."

Design, Focus, Materialism, Space

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"After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared."

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"Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design."

Jef Raskin, American Scientist

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"I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look."

Debbie Allen, American Actress

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"One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular."

Ralph Bakshi, American Director

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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."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response."

Liz Phair, American Musician

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"God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him."

Mary Astell, English Writer

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"For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation."

Kim Campbell, Canadian Statesman

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"I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right."

Brad Pitt, American Actor

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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."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Work is designed to be in your own field of calling."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption."

Goal

"No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems."

Nature

"The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts."

America

"We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist."

Tradition

"The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself."

Development

"It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over."

Act

"There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization."

Time

"We regard those other cultures, such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did 1,000 or 2,000 years ago, as undeveloped."

People

"No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them."

Design

"No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly."

Thought