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Design Quotes
"By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that."
"I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray."
"Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design."
"I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate."
"How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?"
"French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism."
"I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc."
"The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times."
"After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America."
"I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots."
"The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design."
"Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design."
"Design works if it's authentic, inspired, and has a clear point of view. It can't be a collection of input."
"But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs."
"We must carefully consider card security solutions, such as adding photographs or machine-readable electronic strips, so to prevent further breaches of individual privacy that could result from changes to the design of Social Security Cards."
"When you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first!"
"I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design."
"Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them."
"It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus in on the band, but instead focused in on a theme."
"It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion."
"Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response."
"It is very important to lead the field and innovate in game design."
"Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women."
"Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions."
"But my point is that you design something in the end that precludes any unhealthy trading practices that are not going to serve your environmental or your economic objectives but now is not the time to do it."
"Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design."
"I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look."
"Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill."
"I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving."
"Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one."
"I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design."
"Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors."
"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."
"I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May '43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in '42 - even in my position. This aircraft didn't have any priority in design or production."
"Intelligent design itself does not have any content."
"In its report, the Cox Committee concludes that China is using stolen U.S. design information to speed up its deployment of a new nuclear missile force."
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