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Design Quotes
"Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose."
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"Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated."
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"Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design."
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"I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself."
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"Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design."
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"It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed."
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"I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth."
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"Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response."
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"Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful."
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"Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women."
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"Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures."
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"Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone."
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"User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project."
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"It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus in on the band, but instead focused in on a theme."
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"So if I want to buy a light in a shop and I don't find a light that I like, I think to myself what would I like? What would I like to buy? Then I started to imagine and design it for myself a lot of the time."
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"A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering."
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"Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it."
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"If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls."
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"It is very important to lead the field and innovate in game design."
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"When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space."
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"User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process."
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"I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting."
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"Internet safety begins at home and that is why my legislation would require the Federal Trade Commission to design and publish a unique website to serve as a clearinghouse and resource for parents, teachers and children for information on the dangers of surfing the Internet."
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"The new strategy is to teach intelligent design without calling it intelligent design."
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"Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting."
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"Whenever I design any variant, or when anybody sends me one, I always say if at all possible within the context of the game don't have two home supply centers touching each other."
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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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"A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist."
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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."
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"The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution."
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"Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair."
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"When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design."
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"Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors."
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"It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format."
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"In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone."
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"I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May '43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in '42 - even in my position. This aircraft didn't have any priority in design or production."
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