"Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose."

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"We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next."

Work,

"Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic."

Art, Quality, Magic

"Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world."

Change, Ability, World

"Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se."

Quality, People, Ideas, Key

"Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make."

Creativity, Ideas

"It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act."

Act, Expression, Self

"It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do."

Time,

"Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design."

Design,

"The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life."

Life, End, Will

"The details are not the details. They make the design."

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"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

Design, Mistake, People, Fools

"I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth."

John Adams, American President

Design, America, Earth, Mankind

"I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical."

Giorgio Armani, Italian Designer

Design, Time, People, Virtue

"But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?"

Mary Astell, English Writer

Design, Husband, Poor, Woman

"The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it."

Mary Astell, English Writer

Design, Government, Truth, Lie

"God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him."

Mary Astell, English Writer

Design, God, End

"The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all."

Colleen Atwood, American Designer

Design, Music, People, Actors

"Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself."

Marcus Aurelius, Roman Soldier

Design, People, Actions, Custom

"One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular."

Ralph Bakshi, American Director

Design, Animation, Disney

"Accessible design is good design."

Steve Ballmer, American Businessman

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