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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."

"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."

Mike Fitzpatrick, American Politician

Design, Home, Children, Information

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"The new strategy is to teach intelligent design without calling it intelligent design."

"The new strategy is to teach intelligent design without calling it intelligent design."

Kenneth Miller, American Scientist

Design, Strategy

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"Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?"

"Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?"

Robert Shea, American Author

Design, Society, May

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"Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist."

"Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist."

Terence, Roman Writer

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"The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question."

"The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question."

Kenneth Miller, American Scientist

Design, Science, Argument, Evolution

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"We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can."

"We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can."

David Brainerd, American Clergyman

Design, God, Work, World

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"Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them."

"Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them."

Isaac Barrow, English Mathematician

Design, Hope, Discretion, May

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"I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world."

"I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world."

David Brainerd, American Clergyman

Design, God, Thought, May

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"We worked with the engineers in the design and construction and testing phases in those various areas, then we would get back together at the end of the week and brief each other as to what had gone on."

"We worked with the engineers in the design and construction and testing phases in those various areas, then we would get back together at the end of the week and brief each other as to what had gone on."

Alan Shepard, American Astronaut

Design, End, Testing

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"But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs."

"But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs."

Niklaus Wirth, Swiss Scientist

Design, Contemplation, Old, Programming

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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."

"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."

Mike McCready, American Musician

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"We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box."

"We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box."

Michael Behe, American Scientist

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"The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all."

"The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all."

Colleen Atwood, American Designer

Design, Music, People, Actors

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"In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone."

"In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone."

Donald Norman, American Scientist

Design, Opinion

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"Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to."

"Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to."

Ethan Coen, American Director

Design, Movies, Opportunity, Ambition

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"A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist."

"A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist."

R. Buckminster Fuller, American Inventor

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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."

"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."

David Crane, American Screenwriter

Design, Science, Growing up, Machine

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"In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project."

"In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project."

Douglas Wilson, American Entertainer

Design, Quality, Project, Want

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"In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power."

"In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power."

Orville Wright, American Inventor

Design, Power, Time, Testing

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"Design is everything. Everything!"

"Design is everything. Everything!"

Paul Rand, American Designer

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"I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design."

"I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design."

Stephen Sprouse, American Designer

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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."

"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."

Larry Wall, Canadian Author

Design, Power, Development, Community

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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."

"Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications."

Drew Endy, American Scientist

Design, Engineering, Understanding, Want

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"I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary."

"I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary."

Jonathan Mayhew, American Clergyman

Design, People, Act, Argument

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"Throughout the country, I see the same design problems and solutions over and over."

"Throughout the country, I see the same design problems and solutions over and over."

Douglas Wilson, American Entertainer

Design, Country, Problems

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"Stargate by far is the top of the pile when it comes to Sci-Fi. The quality is great. They have really good writers, production design, lighting, wardrobe."

"Stargate by far is the top of the pile when it comes to Sci-Fi. The quality is great. They have really good writers, production design, lighting, wardrobe."

Corin Nemec, American Actor

Design, Quality, Production, Writers

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"There were IBM logos designed for the film, and there were IBM design consultants working with Kubrick on the layout of the controls and computer screens."

"There were IBM logos designed for the film, and there were IBM design consultants working with Kubrick on the layout of the controls and computer screens."

Douglas Trumbull, American Director

Design, Computer, Film

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"Good design doesn't date."

"Good design doesn't date."

Harry Seidler, Australian Architect

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"So much of it is the design of the shot or the motion of the character; it's the work you do so that it has the same things that are in the movie. In just a few frames it's got to communicate something clearly and dramatically."

"So much of it is the design of the shot or the motion of the character; it's the work you do so that it has the same things that are in the movie. In just a few frames it's got to communicate something clearly and dramatically."

Dennis Muren, American Artist

Design, Work, Character

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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."

"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

Design, Animation, Disney

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"It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people."

"It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people."

Genevieve Gorder, American Designer

Design, Money, Power, People

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"I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality."

"I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality."

Marc Newson, Australian Designer

Design, Personality

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"I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray."

"I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray."

Seymoure Cray, American Engineer

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

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

Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish Novelist

Design, Danger, Delay, Ruin

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"The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times."

"The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times."

Philip Schaff, Swiss Theologian

Design, Literary, New testament, Style

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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."

"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."

Martin Fleischmann, English Scientist

Design, Work, Time

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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."

"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."

Fred Davis, English Celebrity

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"I studied literature design and fashion design."

"I studied literature design and fashion design."

Danielle Steel, American Novelist

Design, Fashion, Literature

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"That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them."

"That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them."

Genevieve Gorder, American Designer

Design, Work, People, Frustration

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"You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality."

"You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality."

Walt Disney, American Cartoonist

Design, People, Dream, Reality

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"By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size."

"By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size."

Steven Chu, American Scientist

Design, Purpose

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"And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole."

"And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole."

Daniel Libeskind, Polish Architect

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

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

Stephen Gardiner, British Architect

Design, Garden, Land

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"I don't set goals. Like, that's what I want to be doing however many years from now. I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes."

"I don't set goals. Like, that's what I want to be doing however many years from now. I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes."

Ayumi Hamasaki, Japanese Musician

Design, Love, Dance, Goals

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"I look at each episode in two ways - from a design standpoint and from an entertainment standpoint - this is TV, after all. We usually succeed on at least one of the levels."

"I look at each episode in two ways - from a design standpoint and from an entertainment standpoint - this is TV, after all. We usually succeed on at least one of the levels."

Douglas Wilson, American Entertainer

Design, Entertainment, Succeed

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"Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society."

"Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society."

Walter Gropius, German Architect

Design, Society, Life

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"And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight."

"And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight."

Umberto Guidoni, Italian Astronaut

Design, Government, Agreement, End

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"Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design."

"Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design."

Kevin Kelly, American Editor

12

"Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution."

"Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution."

Ivan Chermayeff, British Designer

Design, Problems, Solution

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"I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive."

"I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive."

Joseph Lancaster, English Educator

Design, Education, Society, Purpose

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