Design Quotes - Page 39

• Design is the beauty of turning constraints into advantages.

  Aza Raskin

  Advantage, Constraints

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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.

  Martin Fleischmann

  Views, Long, Phases

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• Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing.

  Bill Budge

  Games, Drawing, Video

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• Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

  Ralph Cudworth

  Reality, Abuse, May

  Ralph Cudworth (1820). “The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated”, p.322

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• To make sense of this view (design as opposed to accident), one must accept the idea of transcendence: that the Designer exists in a totally different order of reality or being, not restrained within the bounds of the Universe itself.

  George F. R. Ellis

  Reality, Views, Order

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• Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.

  Marston Morse

  Play, Important, Earth

  Marston Morse, Raoul Bott (1981). “Selected papers”, Springer Verlag

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• Excellence is greater than an achievement; excellence is standard in all my designs

  Masato

  Achievement, Excellence, Standards

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• In conformity with these designs on the city of Washington, and notwithstanding the disastrous results of the invasion of 1862, it was determined by the Rebel government last summer to resume the offensive in that direction.

  Edward Everett

  Summer, Government, Cities

  Edward Everett (1868). “Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions”, p.628

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• The bottom line for mathematicians is that the architecture has to be right. In all the mathematics that I did, the essential point was to find the right architecture. It's like building a bridge. Once the main lines of the structure are right, then the details miraculously fit. The problem is the overall design.

  Freeman Dyson

  Math, Bridges, Essentials

  "Freeman Dyson: Mathematician, Physicist, and Writer". The College Mathematics Journal Interview with Donald J. Albers, January 1994.

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• I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into the private world you keep trapped in your head. I want to be that kind of friend. The one who will memorize the things you say as well as the shape of your lips when you say them. I want to know every curve, every freckle, every shiver of your body. I want to know where to touch you, I want to know how to touch you. I want to know convince you to design a smile just for me. Yes, I do want to be your friend. I want to be your best friend in the entire world.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Love, Fall, Curves

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• Design is a career where you learn creative decision making.

  Biz Stone

  Careers, Creative, Decision

  "What is Biz Stone doing?" by Carolyne Zinko, www.sfgate.com. April 5, 2009.

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• You can never let your data dictate design. If you do, you end up following what people currently do and never innovating.

  Aza Raskin

  Data, People, Ends

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• I try to keep the meetings small, especially when we're doing product design.

  Justin Kan

  Trying, Meetings, Products

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• Evolutionary learning calls upon our creative potentials as it empowers us to envision images of the future and bring those images to life by design.

  Bela H. Banathy

  Future, Empowering, Creative

  Bela H. Banathy (2013). “Guided Evolution of Society: A Systems View”, p.255, Springer Science & Business Media

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• It’s not rocket science. It’s social science – the science of understanding people’s needs and their unique relationship with art, literature, history, music, work, philosophy, community, technology and psychology. The act of design is structuring and creating that balance.

  Clement Mok

  Art, Philosophy, Unique

  "Everything Reverberates: Thoughts on Design". Book edited by American Institute of Graphic Arts, 1998.

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• Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade- all the threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Sides, Thread, Treason

  Okakura Kakuzo (2012). “The Book of Tea: Classic Edition”, p.22, Tuttle Publishing

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• I'm Irish but I design something that is quintessentially English and I love hats.

  Philip Treacy

  Hats

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• Every single item that we come into contact with on a daily basis has been designed by an artist. From the toothbrush we use in the morning, to the defibrillator that could save our lives, an artist is behind the design.

  Jarrett J. Krosoczka

  Morning, Artist, Use

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• When I design something, I think of it as a gift to somebody else.

  Eva Zeisel

  Thinking

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• My designs are meant to attract the hand as well as the eye.

  Eva Zeisel

  Eye, Hands, Wells

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• Good information architecture enables people to find and do what they came for. Great information architecture takes find out of the equation: the site behaves as the visitor expects. Poor or missing information architecture neuters content, design, and programming and devalues the site for its owners as well as the audience it was created to serve. It’s like a film with no director. The actors may be good, the sets may be lovely, but audiences will leave soon after the opening credits.

  Jeffrey Zeldman

  People, Missing, Lovely

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• Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to individual voices and content; and change gracefully over time while always retaining their identity.

  Jeffrey Zeldman

  Voice, Identity, Digital

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• Many young web designers view their craft the way I used to view pop culture. It's cool or it's crap. They mistake Style for Design, when the two things are not the same at all. Design communicates on every level. It tells you where you are, cues you to what you can do, and facilitates the doing. Style is tautological; it communicates stylishness. In visual terms, style is an aspect of design; in commercial terms, style can communicate brand attributes.

  Jeffrey Zeldman

  Mistake, Views, Two

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• Any design, whether its for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.

  Henry Petroski

  Airplane, Done, Ships

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• Meanwhile, my residence within the Federal lines, and my acquaintance with so many of the officers, the origin of which I have already mentioned, enabled me to gain much important information as to the position and designs of the enemy.

  Belle Boyd

  Enemy, Important, Lines

  Belle Boyd (1865). “Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison”, p.76

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