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Design Quotes


"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."



"Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail."


"Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition."


"I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc."



"It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion."


"But my point is that you design something in the end that precludes any unhealthy trading practices that are not going to serve your environmental or your economic objectives but now is not the time to do it."


"Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one."


"I'm opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I don't waver."


"At our company, our Design and Construction Consulting Service Team not only helps eliminate the risks inherent in the construction process, they typically save our clients 5% - 10% on overall construction costs. They also help make sure projects come in on time."


"I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting."


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


"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."


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


"The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants."


"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."


"So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed."


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


"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."


"Through the harsh design of fate, Florida was dealt the unfortunate circumstances of bearing the brunt of not one but two hurricanes, and it appears more dark clouds are poised to visit the Sunshine State."


"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."



"Longhorns are unique - each and every one of them is a different color with a different design."


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



"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."


"After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America."


"Design works if it's authentic, inspired, and has a clear point of view. It can't be a collection of input."


"I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design."


"Well, yes, I mean, I think that, you know, my sources suggest that there's a lot of support for the notion that there is a lot of Koran abuse and that it was very much a systematic design, not just an aberration."


"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."


"Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one."


"Unfortunately, the client that exists today is still pretty much the prototype design."


"Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting."


"Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department."


"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."


"To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need."
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