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Design Quotes
"French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism."
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"When you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first!"
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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."
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"Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one."
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"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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"My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians."
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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."
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"It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books."
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"We opened a design center in the South of England last year as part of our strategy for being close to our customers and developing innovative products for exciting new markets."
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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."
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"Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design."
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"How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?"
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"Design works if it's authentic, inspired, and has a clear point of view. It can't be a collection of input."
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"It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion."
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"I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look."
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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."
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"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."
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"The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair."
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"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."
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"So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me."
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"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."
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"Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good."
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"When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential."
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"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."
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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."
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"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."
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"Longhorns are unique - each and every one of them is a different color with a different design."
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"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."
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"We must carefully consider card security solutions, such as adding photographs or machine-readable electronic strips, so to prevent further breaches of individual privacy that could result from changes to the design of Social Security Cards."
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"I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design."
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"The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows."
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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."
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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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"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."
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