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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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"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

20

"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."

"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."

James Cameron, American Director

Design, Actors, Production, Sense

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

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

Christopher Alexander, American Architect

Design, Environmental, Complexity, Problems

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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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"A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker."

"A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker."

David Hume, Scottish Philosopher

Design, Purpose, Intention

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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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"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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"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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"IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film."

"IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film."

Douglas Trumbull, American Director

Design, Computer, Film

19

"So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design."

"So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design."

Robert Rauschenberg, American Artist

Design, Ideas, Years

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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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"The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England."

"The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England."

Peter Stuyvesant, Dutch Public Servant

Design, EnglForce, Possessions, Reform

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"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."

"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."

Robert Shea, American Author

Design, Animals, Competition, Principles

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

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

Janine Turner, American Actress

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"It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this."

"It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this."

Michael Graves, American Architect

Design, Goal, Career

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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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"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."

"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."

Norm Dicks, American Politician

Design, Authority, Congress, Defense

19

"I have never seen a game's graphics look so sharp and clean. The sound design for the game is also unique on the Xbox. The memory on this system allowed us to provide the user with 5.1 Dolby surround sound for home theatre owners."

"I have never seen a game's graphics look so sharp and clean. The sound design for the game is also unique on the Xbox. The memory on this system allowed us to provide the user with 5.1 Dolby surround sound for home theatre owners."

Don Bluth, American Artist

Design, Home, Memory, Sound

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"I wear a lot of different hats - from writer to producer and artist. We all do 5 or 6 jobs, everything from creating our own graphic design to actually recording and the whole bit."

"I wear a lot of different hats - from writer to producer and artist. We all do 5 or 6 jobs, everything from creating our own graphic design to actually recording and the whole bit."

William Bell, American Musician

Design, Artist, Jobs, Writer

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"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."

"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."

Jane Mayer, American Journalist

Design, Koran, Abuse, Support

18

"I studied literature design and fashion design."

"I studied literature design and fashion design."

Danielle Steel, American Novelist

Design, Fashion, Literature

18

"I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings."

"I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings."

Daniel Libeskind, Polish Architect

Design, Awareness, Museums

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"Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do."

"Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do."

Paul Graham, American Scientist

Design, Danger, Now

18

"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

18

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

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

Douglas Wilson, American Entertainer

Design, People, Being

18

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

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

Debi Thomas, American Athlete

Design, Engineering

18

"Design is everything. Everything!"

"Design is everything. Everything!"

Paul Rand, American Designer

18

"I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really convinced me of how powerful a thing design is. It's not just an aesthetic decoration."

"I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really convinced me of how powerful a thing design is. It's not just an aesthetic decoration."

Genevieve Gorder, American Designer

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"I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks."

"I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks."

Edward Tufte, American Educator

Design, Deep, Order

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"Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design."

"Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design."

Charles Eames, American Designer

18

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

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

Arthur Erickson, Canadian Architect

Design, Dream, Film, Wonder

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

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

Andrew Wyeth, American Artist

Design, Balance

18

"Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books."

"Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books."

Donald Norman, American Scientist

Design, Control, Books

18

"Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design."

"Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design."

Edward Tufte, American Educator

Design, Practice, Theory

18

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

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

Carlos Ghosn, Brazilian Businessman

18

"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

17

"Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated."

"Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated."

Niklaus Wirth, Swiss Scientist

Design, Development, Programming

17

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

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

Tom Peters, American Businessman

Design, Meeting

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"But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?"

"But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?"

Mary Astell, English Writer

Design, Husband, Poor, Woman

17

"Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design."

"Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design."

Tim Berners Lee, English Inventor

Design, Care, Pretty, Want

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"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."

"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."

Yukihiro Matsumoto, Japanese Scientist

Design, Philosophy, Saying

17

"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

17

"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

17

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

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

Christian Lacroix, French Designer

17

"I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design."

"I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design."

Yukihiro Matsumoto, Japanese Scientist

Design, Consistency, Goal, Tools

17

"The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it."

"The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it."

Steve Jobs, American Businessman

Design, Understanding, Passion, Depth

17

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

"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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"I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving."

"I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving."

Jeffery Veen, American Entrepreneur

Design, Discipline

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