"Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time."
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"The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity."
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"Up to a point, it is better to just let the snags [bugs] be there than to spend such time in design that there are none."
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"If you watched companies such as Sony and Samsung grow, they focused first on features and then on industrial design, which made their products look and feel better."
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"I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title."
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"Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement."
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"When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree"
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"The most important job of an entrepreneur is to design the business before there is a business."
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"The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualist accounts of evolution."
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"Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service."
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"Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance."
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"Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate."
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"If God is omnipotent and omniscient, why didn't he start the universe out in the first place so it would come out the way he wants? Why's he constantly repairing and complaining? No, there's one thing the Bible makes clear: The biblical God is a sloppy manufacturer. He's not good at design, he's not good at execution. He'd be out of business, if there was any competition."
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"When is the last time you saw a Lamborghini sale?"
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"There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings."
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"If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively, then the design strategy is flawed."
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"The next time you see a person with a composed face and a soft voice, remember that inside her mind she might be solving an equation, composing a sonnet, designing a hat. She might, that is, be deploying the power of quiet."
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"Our design, not respecting arts, but philosophy, and our subject, not manual, but natural powers, we consider chiefly those things which relate to gravity, levity, elastic force, the resistance of fluids, and the like forces, whether attractive or impulsive; and therefore we offer this work as mathematical principles of philosophy; for all the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in this from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena."
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"Selsdon Man is designing a system of society for the ruthlessness and the pushing, the uncaring. His message to the rest is: you're out on your own."
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"Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life."
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