Design Quotes - Page 36

• Different and new is relatively easy. Doing something thats genuinely better is very hard.

  Jonathan Ive

  Different, Easy, Hard

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• Goal we've always had for design at Apple is to create solutions that are inevitable.

  Jonathan Ive

  Apples, Goal, Inevitable

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• People's interest is in the product, not in its authorship.

  Jonathan Ive

  People, Authorship, Interest

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• We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.

  Michael Behe

  Black, Boxes, Accounts

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• The first point one has to get straight in discussions like this, is that ID is not the opposite of evolution. Rather, it is the opposite of Darwinism, which says life evolved by an utterly unguided, undirected mechanism. If god directed the process of evolution, or rigged the universe to produce complex life, then that is not Darwinism - it is intelligent design.

  Michael Behe

  Intelligent, Opposites, Firsts

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• Science may explain the world, but we still have to explain science. The laws which enable the universe to come into being spontaneously seem themselves to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design. If physics is the product of design, the universe must have a purpose, and the evidence of modern physics suggests strongly to me that the purpose includes us

  Paul Davies

  Law, Purpose, World

  Paul Davies (1985). “Superforce”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

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• A lot of the key to Apple's succes is Designing technology in order to hide it.

  Peter Thiel

  Technology, Keys, Order

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• But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Contemplation, Program, Active

  "Program Development by Stepwise Refinement". Communications of the ACM, Vol. 14, No. 4, sunnyday.mit.edu. April 1971.

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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.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Example, Development, Construction

  "Program Development by Stepwise Refinement". Communications of the ACM, Vol. 14, No. 4, sunnyday.mit.edu. April 1971.

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• I suppose if there were a part of the world in which mastodon still lived, somebody would design a new gun, and men, in their eternal impudence, would hunt mastodon as they now hunt elephant. Impudence seems to be the word. At least David and Goliath were of the same species, but, to an elephant, a man can only be a midge with a deathly sting.

  Beryl Markham

  Gun, Men, Elephants

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.227, Open Road Media

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• I try to design into a world that is constantly moving, and moving me.

  Ralph Lauren

  Moving, Trying, World

  Twitter post from Aug 21, 2012

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• My dreams are my work. I design out of the things that I love.

  Ralph Lauren

  Dream

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• When I create a collection, I approach it with a cinematic point of view-I am not designing clothes, I'm creating a world.

  Ralph Lauren

  Views, Clothes, Creating

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• We get to design what we want to see in the world rather than doing what other people think should be done.

  Jack Dorsey

  Thinking, People, Entrepreneur

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• Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started.

  Marc Newson

  Art, School, Together

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• How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all our Navigations, and all our Wars are transacted, is when compared to them. A very fit consideration, and matter of Reflection, for those Kings and Princes who sacrifice the Lives of so many People, only to flatter their Ambition in being Masters of some pitiful corner of this small Spot.

  Christiaan Huygens

  Kings, War, Ambition

  Christiaan Huygens (1722). “The Celestial Worlds Discover'd, Or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets”, p.142

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• I am the Soul.
  I am the Light Divine.
  I am Love.
  I am Will.
  I am Fixed Design.

  Alice Bailey

  Inspirational, Life, Light

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• And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.

  Thomas Keneally

  Thinking, Church, Demise

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• I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.

  Rachel Roy

  Excited, Urges, I Can

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• Design the life you want to live.

  Rachel Roy

  Inspirational, Positive, Want

  "Fashion Designer Rachel Roy". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 22, 2016.

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• Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.

  Tacitus

  Men, Infinite, Accomplished

  Herodotus, Tacitus (2010). “Voyages and Travels: Ancient and Modern”, p.123, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The urgency for reducing climate emissions is too great. We must take our collective experience and use it toward making green design a part of all design.

  Ian Shapiro

  Climate, Use, Green

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• If you hate my guts and have designs to hurt me, and I see you building a cannon aimed at my house, I am not going to wait for you to finish construction.

  Walter E. Williams

  Hurt, Hate, House

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• Like any good spy novel, the Cox Report alleges that Chinese spies penetrated four U.S. weapons research labs and stole important information on seven nuclear warhead designs.

  Charles Bass

  Chinese, Spy, Important

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• In the next 50 years, the increasing importance of designing spaces for human communication and interaction will lead to expansion in those aspects of computing that are focused on people, rather than machinery.

  Terry Winograd

  Communication, Years, Space

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