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Design Quotes
"You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality."
"By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size."
"Unfortunately, the client that exists today is still pretty much the prototype design."
"Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful."
"Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting."
"In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project."
"User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process."
"Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department."
"The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants."
"An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service."
"Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good."
"And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole."
"It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format."
"User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project."
"To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need."
"When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential."
"In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not."
"So if I want to buy a light in a shop and I don't find a light that I like, I think to myself what would I like? What would I like to buy? Then I started to imagine and design it for myself a lot of the time."
"My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians."
"The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995."
"The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England."
"Being in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS."
"The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution."
"So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed."
"I look at each episode in two ways - from a design standpoint and from an entertainment standpoint - this is TV, after all. We usually succeed on at least one of the levels."
"The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes."
"After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either."
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