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  • Daniel J. Boorstin on design

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    “An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.” -Daniel J. Boorstin

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  • Ellen DeGeneres on design

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    “Designing is my hobby. If I didn’t do what I do for a living – at some point when I don’t do this for a living – I’ll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture.” -Ellen DeGeneres

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  • B. F. Skinner on design

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    “I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is.” -B. F. Skinner

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  • Francois de La Rochefoucauld on design

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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.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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  • William Butler Yeats on design

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    “Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought – asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.” -William Butler Yeats

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  • Richard Dawkins on design

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    “Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that’s because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.” -Richard Dawkins

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  • Herbert Simon on design

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    “Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent – not with how things are but with how they might be – in short, with design.” -Herbert Simon

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  • Stockwell Day on design

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    “As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God’s design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.” -Stockwell Day

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  • Lance Armstrong on design

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    “Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn’t work.” -Lance Armstrong

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  • Freeman Dyson on design

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    “A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.” -Freeman Dyson

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  • John Adams on design

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    “I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.” -John Adams

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  • Frank Zappa on design

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    “The computer can’t tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what’s missing is the eyebrows.” -Frank Zappa

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  • Marcus Aurelius on design

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    “Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people’s actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.” -Marcus Aurelius

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  • Charles Stanley on design

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    “In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else’s sake – to abandon our own desires and put our child’s interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly

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  • Bill Gates on design

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    “Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.” -Bill Gates

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  • Bob Dylan on design

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    “I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.” -Bob Dylan

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  • Henry David Thoreau on design

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    “If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.” -Henry David Thoreau

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  • Douglas Adams on design

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    “A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.” -Douglas Adams

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  • Jim Rohn on design

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    “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” -Jim Rohn

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  • Ivan Chermayeff on design

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    “Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.” -Ivan Chermayeff

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  • Steve Jobs on design

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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

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  • James Randolph Adams on design

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    “Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture – and forget that merchandise must be sold.” -James Randolph Adams

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  • David McFadden on design

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    “Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one.” -David McFadden

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  • Kenzo Tange on design

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    “Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.” -Kenzo Tange

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  • Geoffrey Beene on design

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    “Design is an unknown.” -Geoffrey Beene

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