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  • Carson McCullers on design

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    “The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.” -Carson McCullers

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  • James Rouse on design

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    “For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.” -James Rouse

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  • Kenneth R. Miller on design

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    “The new strategy is to teach intelligent design without calling it intelligent design.” -Kenneth R. Miller

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  • B. J. Novak on design

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    “Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.” -B. J. Novak

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  • Adam Ferguson on design

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    “Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.” -Adam Ferguson

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  • Jean Nouvel on design

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    “It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place – that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.” -Jean Nouvel

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  • Donald Wills Douglas on design

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    “When you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first!” -Donald Wills Douglas

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  • Milton Glaser on design

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    “Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.” -Milton Glaser

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  • Ty Pennington on design

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    “Design can change how you look at yourself.” -Ty Pennington

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  • Ethan Coen on design

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    “Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to.” -Ethan Coen

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  • Michael Dell on design

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    “The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don’t design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don’t really care, as long as we’re selling the one the customer wants.” -Michael Dell

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  • George Gilder on design

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    “Intelligent design itself does not have any content.” -George Gilder

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  • Eric Carle on design

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    “That’s something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my professor emphasized the responsibility that designers and illustrators have towards the people they create things for.” -Eric Carle

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  • Tom Watson on design

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    “If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively, then the design strategy is flawed.” -Tom Watson

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  • Tony Kaye on design

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    “I’ve come up through art school, through painting, through graphic design, through advertising, through TV commercials and music video. I’ve designed books, built billboards, matchbooks, corporate identities. I continuously paint, I’ve done conceptual art pictures.” -Tony Kaye

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  • Jef Raskin on design

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    “Once the product’s task is known, design the interface first then implement to the interface design.” -Jef Raskin

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  • Byron White on design

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    “The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.” -Byron White

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  • Larry J. Sabato on design

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    “The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it.” -Larry J. Sabato

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  • Steve Madden on design

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    “My strengths as a businessman lie in the design and sale of women’s shoes, and I have never been comfortable with complicated or technical legal or business documents.” -Steve Madden

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  • Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned on design

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    “I have lived with my husband more than I have with my parents… I live beside him, and know his worries, his hopes, and his dreams for his nation. We believe that things happen by design, not in an arbitrary way. And we believe it is our duty to make things happen.” -Mozah bint Nasser

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  • Philip Schaff on design

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    “The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times.” -Philip Schaff

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  • Tarsem Singh on design

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    “Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I’m not good at going out loosely and saying, ‘Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he’ll figure it out.’ I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, ‘Let’s walk until you guys feel the

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  • Jack Reed on design

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    “If we don’t have accurate information, if we are not able to tell difficult truth one to another, we will never be able to effectively design a policy for Iraq.” -Jack Reed

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  • Dorothy Dunnett on design

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    “You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme that’s partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves – the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.” -Dorothy Dunnett

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  • Giambattista Valli on design

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    “I have made bouquets of pleats, bouquets of flowers, bouquets of ruffles, bouquets of feathers. Often I design in mousseline, held tightly around the waist, and with something else going on all around.” -Giambattista Valli

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