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• See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Memorable, Purpose

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• It's when we're given choice that we sit with the gods and design ourselves.

  Dorothy Gilman

  Journey, Choices, Given

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• When we think of design, we usually imagine things that are chosen because they are designed. Vases or comic books or architecture... It turns out, though, that most of what we make or design is actually aimed at a public that is there for something else. The design is important, but the design is not the point. Call it "public design"... Public design is for individuals who have to fill out our tax form, interact with our website or check into our hotel room despite the way it's designed, not because of it.

  Seth Godin

  Book, Thinking, Important

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• Form is never more than an extension of content.

  Robert Creeley

  Art, Writing, Form

  Charles Olson, Robert Creeley (1980). “Charles Olson & Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence”, p.50, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

  C. W. Ceram

  Inspirational, Teaching, Simple

  C.W. Ceram (2012). “Gods, Graves & Scholars: The Story of Archaeology”, p.262, Vintage

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• Just remember: you're not a 'dummy,' no matter what those computer books claim. The real dummies are the people who-though technically expert-couldn't design hardware and software that's usable by normal consumers if their lives depended upon it.

  Walt Mossberg

  Real, Book, Remember You

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• Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of human and animal species was entirely an illusion. The illusion could be explained by evolutionary processes that contained no such purpose at all. But the spread of ideas through imitation required the whole apparatus of human consciousness and intentionality

  John Searle

  Animal, Ideas, Achievement

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• It's cool to be a nerd. There's a general understanding that smartphones didn't come from jocks. The digital age was foreseen by a group of short-sleeved, buttoned-down, white-shirted guys and their female equivalents designing the very stuff that's now ubiquitous.

  J. J. Abrams

  Success, White, Smartphones

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• For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.

  Robert Jastrow

  Bible, Faith, Dream

  God and the Astronomers ch. 9 (1978)

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• Yet is it possible in terms of the motion of atoms to explain how men can invent an electric motor, or design and build a great cathedral? If such achievements represent anything more than the requirements of physical law, it means that science must investigate the additional controlling factors, whatever they may be, in order that the world of nature may be adequately understood.

  Arthur Compton

  Mean, Science, Men

  "The Human Meaning of Science".

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• Catholics can in no way convince themselves that so enormous and unjust an in equality in the distribution of this world's goods truly conforms to the designs of the all-wise Creator.

  Pope Pius XI

  Wise, Catholic, World

  Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI), Pope Pius XI (1947). “On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)”

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• Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as well as a pervasive need in society.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Memorable, Caring, Needs

  Mary Catherine Bateson (1990). “Composing a Life”, Plume

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• You don't filter smokestacks or water. Instead, you put the filter in your head and design the problem out of existence.

  William McDonough

  Inspiring, Water, Filters

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• People adopt ideas when social, personal and financial trends intersect-a confluence that may seem random but usually happens 'by design.

  Clement Mok

  Ideas, People, Innovation

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• There are still to be found visionary or designing men, who stand ready to advocate the paradox of perpetual peace between the states, though dismembered and alienated from each other.... The genius of republics, say they, is pacific; the spirit of commerce has a tendency to soften the manners of men, and to extinguish those inflammable humours which have so often kindled into wars. Commercial republics, like ours, will never be disposed to waste themselves in ruinous contentions with each other. They will be governed by mutual interest, and will cultivate a spirit of mutual amity and concord.

  Alexander Hamilton

  War, Men, Mutual Interest

  "The Federalist on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788, with an Appendix Containing the Letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the Proclamation of Neutrality of 1793".

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• I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I can keep putting more things in it - drama, anger, pain, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas about space. Through your eyes it again becomes an emotion or idea.

  Willem de Kooning

  Horse, Pain, Drama

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• The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these liberal arts: grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, perspective, history, anatomy, theory of design, arithmetic.

  Lorenzo Ghiberti

  Art, Philosophy, Medicine

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• A product which is unceremoniously wasted to landfill at end of life surely can't be considered good design!

  Neil Tierney

  Business, Management, Economics

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• Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor

  Theodore Parker

  Fields, Labor, Good Sense

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• The more contemplative gardener, seeing the garden as a whole, the design of it, and its nature as a still place of delight and refreshment, will wait and hope for the moment when it seems to achieve perfection. Awareness of when such moments are most likely helps to make them happen; they will not be entirely accidental but anticipated; everything will be planned to encourage them.

  Susan Hill

  Garden, Perfection, Waiting

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• But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained, as in the case of pleasure gardens, room decoration, all sorts of useful utensils, and so on, any regularity that has an air of constraint is [to be] avoided as much as possible. That is why the English taste in gardens, or the baroque taste in furniture, carries the imagination's freedom very far, even to the verge of the grotesque, because it is precisely this divorce from any constraint of a rule that the case is posited where taste can show its greatest perfection in designs made by the imagination.

  Immanuel Kant

  Art, Divorce, Garden

  "Critique of Judgment".

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• Strong evidence suggests that we are dealing with a phenomenon that is being caused by palpable, solid objects whose characteristics are not of human design, and whose behavior is suggestive of intelligent control.

  Peter Davenport

  Strong, Intelligent, Behavior

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• Through the harsh design of fate, Florida was dealt the unfortunate circumstances of bearing the brunt of not one but two hurricanes, and it appears more dark clouds are poised to visit the Sunshine State.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Fate, Dark, Sunshine

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• Writing code is not production, it's not always craftsmanship though it can be, it's design.

  Joel Spolsky

  Writing, Programming, Code

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• I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jackie Kennedy. She is, to my mind, a very gallant lady, victimized by whoever it is who designs the tops of her uniforms.

  Leonard Cohen

  Queens, Heart, Mind

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “Beautiful Losers”, p.232, Vintage

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