"The sudden hunch, the creative leap of mind that "sees" in a flash how to solve a problem in a simple way, is something quite different from general intelligence."
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"Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles - and functional?"
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"I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look."
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"Design is the best way to get from A to B when you don’t yet know what B is."
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"Inspiration starts somewhere."
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"The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it."
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"It is impossible to design anything that is foolproof because fools are so ingenious."
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"Everything starts with design."
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"The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. And for that they must be free."
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"If you focus on design, you can call yourself a designer. If you focus on the implementation of your design, you can call yourself an architect."
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"Spend your time designing the greatest reputation a man could possess."
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"Even when I wrote Basic myself the day before I burned it into a computer I wasn't making design changes. I didn't have a testing team. I did all the testing myself. And there was no project methodology or schedule that, there was the notion of coming to a close means testing a lot at the end and making very few changes."
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"I don't see myself as an artist. I work with artists and collaborate with them, but then it becomes graphic design. It's not an art. I'm a graphic designer."
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"Make your life a masterpiece: Step beyond the demands of the moment and begin right now to design and live the life you deserve."
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"Marketing is the act of inventing the product. The effort of designing it. The craft of producing it. The art of pricing it. The technique of selling it."
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"The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century."
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"The Enemy wants to bring the man to a state of mind in which he could design the best cathedral in the world, and know it to be the best, and rejoice in the fact, without being any more (or less) or otherwise glad at having done it than he would be if it had been done by another. The Enemy wants him, in the end, to be so free from any bias in his own favour that he can rejoice in his own talents as frankly and gratefully as in his neighbour's talents--or in a sunrise, an elephant, or a waterfall."
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"If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong."
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"A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker."
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"The best design reveals itself during a long fatiguing process of digging into the subconscious."
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