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Design Quotes


"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."


"So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me."


"The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes."



"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."


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


"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."


"Being in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS."


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


"Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families. However, they refused to include any of those who were removed in the design of their own memorial."



"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."



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


"Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


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


"French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism."


"I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots."


"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."


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


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


"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."


"Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design."


"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."



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


"It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution."


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


"We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world."



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


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


"An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service."
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