Steve Jobs
Entrepreneur
"Make it like a sunflower."
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Architect
"Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union."
Antonin Scalia
Judge
"Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize."
Le Corbusier
Architect, Designer, Urban Planner
"To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects."
Jay-Z
Rapper, Businessman
"Remind yourself. Nobody built like you, you design yourself."
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"You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site."
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"Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does."
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"Feminine traits are called weaknesses. People joke about them; fools ridicule them; but reasonable persons see very well that those traits are just the tools for the management of men, and for the use of men for female designs."
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"I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is."
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"If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an "information architect" and only use Helvetica."
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"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced."
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"Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them."
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"Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity."
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"There is no better designer than nature"
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"Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been."
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"To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard."
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"I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke."
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"Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated."
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"For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation."
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"I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable designs which the branches and leaves of trees embroider across the sky, and I do not think that any invention of the human spirit could have a more graceful or precise origin."
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"For some reason I have a visual intuition that allows me to design things in an interesting way, and I don't know where that came from. Because I don't have this formal training, I seem to drift in a different direction."
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"Art is never finished, only abandoned."
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"I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it."
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"I make all my decisions on intuition. But then, I must know why I made that decision. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect."
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"If I have made a mistake in the design, then I'm the one who should pay for it. I certainly would not ask somebody else to fly a plane if I were afraid to do it myself."
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