Design Quotes
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As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.
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Design is too important to be left to designers.
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Good design doesn't date.
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When we think about what might go wrong, we're more likely to design something that goes right.
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The whole experience co-curating the Biennial was a learning experience. The Suburban and The Poor Farm are not institutions. They are not by design, organized around power structures. Because I am someone who thrives on delineating context, seeing up close the inner workings of the museum was not wasted on me.
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The man who is striving to solve a problem defined by existing knowledge and technique is not, however, just looking around. He knows what he wants to achieve, and he designs his instruments and directs his thoughts accordingly. Unanticipated novelty, the new discovery, can emerge only to the extent that his anticipations about nature and his instruments prove wrong... There is no other effective way in which discoveries might be generated.
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To design a home is to design happiness, to create for ourselves a little piece of joy.
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Men have no concept of how to design things for the home. Women should design the things they use.
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When design springs from an understanding of the people who are going to use a product, you begin to see forms that you would never have imagined.
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I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people.
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I love tennis more than designing because it's actually easier and I don't get nearly as nervous.
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I was probably born with some designing abilities.
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For me, faith means that what is right will win out one day. It means that the universe is not aimless but moves by some positive design.
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Do not be afraid of large patterns, if properly designed they are more restful to the eye than small ones: on the whole, a pattern where the structure is large and the details much broken up is the most useful...very small rooms, as well as very large ones, look better ornamented with large patterns.
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Intelligent Design opens the whole possibility of us being created in the image of a benevolent God.
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My studio cube is an experiment in solar heating and design. The south wall is covered with glass planks that collect and distribute heat naturally to my work studio on the second level.
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Design is a very personal thing. It's like art. Your personal choice plays a big role.
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...there is no doubt something will be done sooner or later to enable us to put on a house every day, just as we put on clothes or choose a book to read or a theater to go to, like choosing a day to be lived, within the limits grated by other destinies or chances.
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The temptation to believe that the Universe is the product of some sort of design, a manifestation of subtle aesthetic and mathematical judgment, is overwhelming. The belief that there is "something behind it all" is one that I personally share with, I suspect, a majority of physicists.
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The next time you see a 16-color, blind-embossed, gold-stamped, die-cut, elaborately folded and bound job, printed on handmade paper, see if it isn't a mediocre idea trying to pass for something else.
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Design is not for philosophy it's for life.
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The Net is not a single home. Rather, it's an environment where thousands of small homes and communities can form and define and design themselves.
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The designs are more about the whole thing rather than the details, and if I were to do the big shapes I do, color would maybe be too much. Pink or red would push it all over the edge.
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Technology is, in the broadest sense, mind or intelligence or purpose blending with nature.
