"The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it."
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"Many feel that sitting at a screen sweating over the design of handrail details for the next cute downtown boutique hotel just doesn't make sense when more than 150,000 people have lost their lives, more than five million people have been made homeless and whole towns have been swept away."
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"The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design."
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"Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy."
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"User experience is everything. It always has been, but it's undervalued and underinvested in. If you don't know user-centered design, study it. Hire people who know it. Obsess over it. Live and breathe it. Get your whole company on board."
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"I majored in fashion design in school, and I have always wanted to design my own line of clothing, jewelry, and stuff like that; so this was just a step for me in that direction."
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"Privacy, after all, was the most relative of privileges. It was granted us by society under ungenerous conditions, the most fundamental of them that whether for pain or profit, by design or accident, we not call public attention to ourselves."
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"The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years."
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"The ideal set-up would be the story man, the director, and the layout man, as well as musician, operating as a sort of story unit. They all should be keenly interested in the picture. No one in person should donate to an extent where he would keep the others from entering into the production and freely expressing themselves."
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"I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have been concluded."
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"Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game."
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"Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance."
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"Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections their author."
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"It is not difficult to conceive, however, that for many reasons a man writes much better than he lives. For without entering into refined speculations, it may be shown much easier to design than to perform. A man proposes his schemes of life in a state of abstraction and disengagement, exempt from the enticements of hope, the solicitations of affection, the importunities of appetite, or the depressions of fear."
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"Lead a life of your own design, on your own terms -not one that others, or the environment have scripted for you."
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"Lofty designs must close in like effects."
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"Nuclear weapons need large facilities, but genetic engineering can be done in a small lab. You can't regulate every lab in the world. The danger is that either by accident or design, we create a virus that destroys us."
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"I believe with religious intensity that good design is for everyone."
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"You make your own luck. Luck is the residue of design."
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"Fashion keeps me designing: the love of change, the idea that the next one will be the right one, the nonstop dialogue"
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