Design Quotes - Page 21

• Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.

  Jonathan Ive

  Philosophical, Mean, Simplicity In Design

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• Very often design is the most immediate way of defining what products become in people's minds.

  Jonathan Ive

  Philosophical, People, Mind

  "Jonathan Ive: Apple of the iMac". Interview with Caroline Frost, news.bbc.co.uk. January 18, 2002.

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• Apple's Jony Ive describes his "fanatical" approach to design in new interview

  Jonathan Ive

  Philosophical, Apples, Interviews

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• We don't do focus groups - that is the job of the designer. It's unfair to ask people who don't have a sense of the opportunities of tomorrow from the context of today to design.

  Jonathan Ive

  Jobs, Philosophical, Opportunity

  "Sir Jonathan Ive: The iMan cometh". Evening Standard Interview, www.standard.co.uk. March 12, 2012.

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• Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over time.

  Steven Pinker

  Evolution, Natural, Process

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.158, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A richer present I design,
  A finished form, of work divine,
  Surpassing all the power of art;
  A thinking head, a grateful heart.

  Mary Barber

  Gratitude, Art, Grateful

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• Come, don't be in a fright, but put on your clothes, and I'll let you into a secret. You must know that I am Captain of this ship now, and this is my cabin, therefore you must walk out. I am bound to Madagascar, with a design of making my own fortune, and that of all the brave fellows joined with me...if you have a mind to make one of us, we will receive you, and if you'll turn sober, and mind your business, perhaps in time I may make you one of my Lieutenants, if not, here's a boat alongside and you shall be set ashore.

  Henry Every

  Clothes, Pirate, Brave

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• Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a design to be each other's mutual comfort and entertainment have, in that action, bound themselves to be good-humored, affable, discreet, forgiving, patient, and joyful, with respect to each other's frailties and perfections, to the end of their lives.

  Joseph Addison

  Anniversary, Two, Perfection

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1860). “The Spectator: A New Edition”, p.583

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• The challenge is about taking things that are infinitely complex and making them simpler and more understandable.

  Robert Greenberg

  Challenges, Consciousness, Complexes

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• Our role is to imagine products that don't exist and guide them to life.

  Christopher Stringer

  Roles, Consciousness, Imagine

  "Christopher Stringer, Apple Design Veteran, Calls iPhone Crafters ‘Maniacal’" by Poornima Gupta and Dan Levine, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2012.

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• If something is going to be better, it is new, and if it's new you are confronting problems and challenges you don't have references for.

  Jonathan Ive

  Challenges, Problem, Consciousness

  "Sir Jonathan Ive says he is humbled by his knighthood for services to design". Interview with Mark Prigg, www.independent.co.uk. March 13, 2012.

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• For we must bear in mind that the greater number of garden pictures known to us are taken from tombs.

  Marie-Luise Gothein

  Death, Taken, Garden

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• There are many possible approaches to Australian garden design, and they all reflect the designer's individual response to gardens. For my part, I love all things most gardeners abhor... I like the whole thing to be as wild as possible, so that you have to fight your way through in places.

  Edna Walling

  Fighting, Garden, Way

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• I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies us with energy which vice can never resist; that it was always in our power to obstruct, by his own death, the designs of an enemy who aimed at less than our lives.

  Charles Brockden Brown

  Evil, Mind, Enemy

  Charles Brockden Brown, Philip Barnard, Stephen Shapiro (1958). “Wieland, Or, The Transformation”, p.75, Hackett Publishing

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• Very often, people confuse simple with simplistic. The nuance is lost on most.

  Clement Mok

  Inspirational Life, Simple, People

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• Terrorism is not a limited threat, it is a world wide operation. Today, many countries in the east, and in the west, in the north, and in the south, have been the targets of the nefarious designs of terrorists.

  Pratibha Patil

  Country, East, Target

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• A single word often betrays a great design.

  Jean Racine

  Writing, Single Word, Betray

  "Athalie". Book by Jean Racine, II. 6, 1691.

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• Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.

  Eric Berne

  Giving, Persons, Interfere

  Eric Berne (2010). “What Do You Say After You Say Hello”, p.51, Random House

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• Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of events inspiring fear and pity. Such an effect is best produced when the events come on us by surprise; and the effect is heightened when, at the same time, they follow as cause and effect. The tragic wonder will then be great than if they happened of themselves or by accident; for even coincidences are most striking when they have an air of design.

  Aristotle

  Air, Tragedy, Events

  Aristotle (0101). “The Poetics of Aristotle”, p.18, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.

  Lillian Hellman

  Teaching, Majority Vote, Government

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• Create something people want to share.

  John Jantsch

  Successful, People, Marketing

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• When it gets difficult is often right before you succeed.

  Jeffrey Walker

  Success, Marketing, Blogging

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• See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Memorable, Purpose

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• It's when we're given choice that we sit with the gods and design ourselves.

  Dorothy Gilman

  Journey, Choices, Given

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• Form is never more than an extension of content.

  Robert Creeley

  Art, Writing, Form

  Charles Olson, Robert Creeley (1980). “Charles Olson & Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence”, p.50, David R. Godine Publisher

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