Design Quotes
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We had the hardware expertise, the industrial design expertise and the software expertise, including iTunes. One of the biggest insights we have was that we decided not to try to manage your music library on the iPod, but to manage it in iTunes. Other companies tried to do everything on the device itself and made it so complicated that it was useless.
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When I was young, all we ever heard about was functionalism, functionalism, functionalism. It’s not enough. Design should also be sensual and exciting.
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The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.
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Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.
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The old question of whether there is design is idle. The real question is what is the world, whether or not it have a designer--and that can be revealed only by the study of all nature's particulars.
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Your first try will be wrong. Budget and design for it.
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We go to war only to make peace. We never went to war with any other design. We carry the national conscience wherever we go.
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The maker movement is about people who want to gain more control of the human design world that they interact with every day. Instead of accepting off-the-shelf solutions from institutions and corporations, makers would like to make, modify, and repair their own tools, clothing, food, toys, furniture, and other physical objects.
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I love the '60s and sort of wish all design had stopped in 1967. That would be my dream. They were really just nailing it - everyone looked great - but then it started getting a bit slippery after that.
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I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age.
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It's a corset design making me look very, very slim and trim. I call it a corset dress. Very Hollywood glamour with the silk.
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I love Janet Jackson and her creative set design.
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I venture on assuring you that I regard the design formed by you and your friends with sincere interest, and in particular wish well to all the efforts you may make on behalf of individual freedom and independence as opposed to what is termed Collectivism.
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The world is not to be approached, blueprint in hand, as if it were so much raw material waiting to be fashioned to someone's design.
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When I design, I think about the desire someone might have for it and why. I want them to fall in love with it.
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With the Bond girls, they've always been these sexy but quite strong women, and that's a nice combination to design for.
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Having the USDA design your food pyramid is like having Al Capone do your taxes.
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Remind yourself. Nobody built like you, you design yourself.
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Properly practiced creativity MUST result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent.
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"Story-tellers" should listen seriously to design and architecture without getting all literary and imperial about that. Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry.
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Your life is a kind of laboratory where you're constantly experimenting with your own higher knowing, always increasing your capacity to design the life you choose. Human beings must create; it's hardwired. The question is, are you consciously creating or only sleepwalking through your human life?
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In order to design a future of positive change, we must first become expert at changing our minds.
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No architect should design buildings that import a huge amount of energy.
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Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself in the public road.
