Design Quotes
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For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.
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Good design for the home should be universal. A house should be like old shoes, comfortable, like a good friend... The Japanese aesthetic is important to me. Very organic. They have a sense of the weight of the thing: very balanced.
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We hope 'Toy Story 3' looks amazing but still retains the character design of the first film. I like to think it looks like 'Toy Story' would have looked back then had we had the skills and the technology.
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Most songs I write are spur-of-the-moment-type things. I have to be spontaneous. If not, songwriting can bore me. There is no pre-design or idea of what I am going to do when I go into the studio. It's all like that for me. I could go in and write two or three songs in an eight-hour session. You can't over-think songs. You just can't.
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Design is people.
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Economic engineering is about the design and analysis of frameworks for achieving specific economic objectives.
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Collaborations are incredibly important in design.
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Designing renders visible our hopes and dreams. It is the first signal of human intentions.
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The best design is the simplest one that works.
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The idea that we were designed by our past was the principal insight of Charles Darwin. He was the first to realize that you can abandon divine creation of species without abandoning the argument from design.
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Deep down, creationists realize they will never win factual arguments with science. This is why they have construed their own science-like universe, known as Intelligent Design, and eagerly jump on every tidbit of information that seems to go their way.
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To be able to design for the plus-sized consumer, for me, that's just beyond. It's a dream.
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I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.
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I love the idea of couture and its emphasis on creation. There's where I made my name - in design - and there's where I'd like to stay.
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I like to hike and cook. I enjoy furniture and design - not making it, just looking at it. I'm always kind of trying to spread my interests around and try new things.
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So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.
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I've always loved fashion design. I love drawing and creating looks and styling.
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You think about the beauty and what you want to transmit. If I think about designing, I can't design.
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Stargate by far is the top of the pile when it comes to Sci-Fi. The quality is great. They have really good writers, production design, lighting, wardrobe.
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I love Ikea: it's non-design, but it works.
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You can't refuse to move forward when you're educating in design, because that's what we're asking students to do the whole time.
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The demise of Google Reader, if logical, is a reminder of how far we've come from the cuddly old 'I'm Feeling Lucky' Google days, in which there was a foreseeably-astonishing delight in the way Google's evolving design tricks anticipated what users would like.
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There's simply no better company out there doing mobile travel apps with the same level of design sensibility and utility as Mobiata.
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If any man whatsoever hath carried on the design of deposing the King and disinheriting his posterity; or if any man hath yet such a design he should be the greatest traitor and rebel in the world; but, since the Providence of God hath cast this upon us, I cannot but submit to Providence.
