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  • Josh McDowell on design

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    “I’ve never had anyone define purity. You probably can’t define purity. Purity is to live according to original design.” -Josh McDowell

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  • Tadao Ando on design

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    “All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it’s difficult to quantify the attachment.” -Tadao Ando

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  • Stephen Gardiner on design

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    “French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture like Roman design, it looks to the community.” -Stephen Gardiner

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  • Jamie Oliver on design

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    “If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.” -Jamie Oliver

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  • Ai Weiwei on design

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    “I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron’s invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.” -Ai Weiwei

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  • Orville Wright on design

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    “In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.” -Orville Wright

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  • Robert Rodriguez on design

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    “I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.” -Robert Rodriguez

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  • Khloe Kardashian on design

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    “To be able to design for the plus-sized consumer, for me, that’s just beyond. It’s a dream.” -Khloe Kardashian

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  • Rudy Giuliani on design

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    “There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.” -Rudy Giuliani

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  • Jaron Lanier on design

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    “The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena.” -Jaron Lanier

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  • Jane Seymour on design

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    “I learn my lines while on the golf course. I try to do two or three things at once. I have ideas for books all the time, I have ideas for paintings all the time, and I write them all down. I take my sketchpad and my iPad, which I design on, and I do

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  • Kellan Lutz on design

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    “What I’ve learned from different designers is that it’s key to be true to who you are and your vision. That’s always been my line of thinking. Working through the whole design process, I don’t want to create something I wouldn’t be proud to wear.” -Kellan Lutz

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  • Nicole Richie on design

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    “I am extremely involved in the design process of both my brands, Winter Kate and House of Harlow 1960.” -Nicole Richie

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  • Fergie on design

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    “Luckily I don’t have to buy shoes anymore, because I design them! I’m off tour, so I can dive in and create the shoes that I want for my line. But okay, I did buy a pair of vintage combat boots because they were so beaten up – I had to have them.” -Fergie

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  • Carrie-Anne Moss on design

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    “People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you’re lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.” -Carrie-Anne Moss

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  • Tim Berners-Lee on design

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    “Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don’t care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.” -Tim Berners-Lee

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  • Mary Astell on design

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    “God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.” -Mary Astell

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  • Charles Eames on design

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    “In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.” -Charles Eames

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  • Alan Shepard on design

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    “We worked with the engineers in the design and construction and testing phases in those various areas, then we would get back together at the end of the week and brief each other as to what had gone on.” -Alan Shepard

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  • Christopher Alexander on design

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    “Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive you will be able to design a house together with your family a garden for your children places where you can work beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream.” -Christopher Alexander

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  • Stella McCartney on design

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    “I am a fashion designer. I’m not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning, number one I’m a mother and a wife, and number two I design clothes. So the main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer.” -Stella McCartney

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  • Bobby Flay on design

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    “I think a lot of times people design restaurants with flash in mind. I think you should design restaurants with function in mind. Make sure it’s functional and works with what you’re trying to accomplish. Design can come later.” -Bobby Flay

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  • Florence Welch on design

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    “I’ve always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn’t a singer I’d probably be in stage setting or interior design or something. I like clutter and I’m quite visually greedy. I can’t have things to be plain I have to have things looking interesting… maybe I’m just a frustrated interior designer

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  • Larry Wall on design

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    “When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It’s limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.” -Larry Wall

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  • Dave Eggers on design

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    “McSweeney’s as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.” -Dave Eggers

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