"Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it."
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"Any product that needs a manual to work is broken."
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"If you like your remote messaging fat, dumb, and interoperable, you could also look into the SOAP libraries distributed with Ruby."
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"But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created that a cat should play with mice."
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"I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work."
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"I design a lot of things that I wear onstage, but I'm always looking for unique stuff. I like creative things, so anything I can find at a secondhand costume shop to a Helmut Lang store, it doesn't matter - just unique stuff."
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"There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs."
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"I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with "expressing" myself with obscure creative impressions."
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"Everyone has to contribute, or they become laborers."
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"To be an Error and to be Cast out is a part of God's Design."
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"Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste."
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"The world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design."
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"Then we shall... be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason - for then we would know the mind of God."
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"Humor is all about timing."
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"Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing."
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"Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity."
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"I love design, so it's important for me to have a creative outlet."
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"Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends."
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"Style is to forget all styles."
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"Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar"
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