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Quotes by Designer

"The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union."

"If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools."

"We found a way to make things look great to the human eye through the window of a graphical web browser without worrying about what everything looked like under the hood."
Eye,

"Each individual piece is a calculated attempt to entice women to add to their wardrobe."

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

"We reduced the size of our front page code by about 50%, and by using absolute positioning, we are able to display important parts of the page before other parts may have fully loaded yet."
May,

"I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink."

"People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train."

"I would just sketch everything that was being made for the collections."

"I don't know if it's a movement, but the only thing new that's happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion are all kind of thrown into one big ball that's on television, and people see that all the time - you see a fusion of all those things."

"The difference between style and fashion is quality."

"The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually don't, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened... and it happened because of a beautiful idea."

"Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie."

"So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die."

"The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you."

"I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?"

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

"The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed."
Time,


"I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish."

"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."
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