Bill Buxton Quotes
My thesis is that in order to design a tool, we must make our best efforts to understand the larger social and physical context within which it is intended to function.
Bill Buxton
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Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently - the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs 'good tricks.'
Daniel Dennett
Health care is a design problem. Dependence on foreign oil is a design problem. To some extent, poverty is a design problem. We need design thinkers to solve those problems, and most people who are in positions of political power are not design thinkers, to put it mildly.
Dan Pink
I always have music playing in my studio when I design. It really gets me in the mood and allows me to focus.
Yigal Azrouël
I'm interested in technology for the masses. Good tech design should not just be for enthusiasts but for the general public. It should be something that touches everyone.
Yves Behar
Nike is the uniform for kids all over the world, and African design has been killed by Nike. Africans no longer want to wear their own designs.
M.I.A.
The Thing of the idols, the green, sticky spawn of the stars, had awaked to claim his own. The stars were right again, and what an age-old cult had failed to do by design, a band of innocent sailors had done by accident. After vigintillions of years great Cthulhu was loose again, and ravening for delight.
H. P. Lovecraft
Your problem has nothing to do with git, and everything to do with emacs. And then you have the gall to talk about 'Unix design' and not gumming programs together, when you yourself use the most gummed-up piece of absolute sh*t there is!
Linus Torvalds
CSS is the design language of the web, and it is not as easy to use as it ought to be, and it can be confusing, especially if you are new to it.
Jeffrey Zeldman
Minted.com is both a global design community and stationery retailer. Independent graphic designers from all over the world submit designs to our ongoing design competitions, and Minted's community votes to tell us what to sell.
Mariam Naficy
I want to design jewelry for girls and guys... I'ma spread it out, but I'ma design, probably when I'm just designing furniture and buildings, I'll probably being the jewelry thing, too.
Tyler, The Creator
Architects design houses. I live in a home.
Peter Eisenman
When I design, I always pull from things that are significant to me. In my work, I search for happiness and then try to convey that joy in the clothes.
Jeremy Scott
I have a background in technology, design, architecture, arts and sciences. I see myself as a multi-dimensional person.
Pranav Mistry
Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father!
John Pearson
When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over.
John Perkins
Like the bright, cool dawn after a night of prison and of thunder, Man can taste that freedom sought so long.
L. Ron Hubbard
My thesis is that in order to design a tool, we must make our best efforts to understand the larger social and physical context within which it is intended to function.
Bill Buxton
