Design Quotes - Page 36

• The great pyramid is overrated. It's a bad design. The lounge is going to be huge, but the bedroom is going to be tiny.

  Karl Pilkington

  Pyramids, Tiny, Bedroom

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• There either is a god or there is not; there is a 'design' or not.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist

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• Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.

  Caterina Fake

  Business, Entrepreneur, Important

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• Thank God for Carrie Wiatt (creator of Diet Designs)! She has raised my consciousness of healthy eating so much that it will be practiced by me and my family for the rest of our lives. I never dreamed low-fat food could taste so good!

  Sela Ward

  Healthy, Thank God, Taste

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• I really like Calvin Klein for his classic simplicity. I also think Prabal Gurung designs some great pieces that work well for me. My mom has such great style she's my biggest influence.

  Isabelle Fuhrman

  Mom, Thinking, Simplicity

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• I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it?

  Michael Kors

  Thinking, Enjoy

  "Michael Kors: American Idol". Interview with Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, www.harpersbazaar.com. June 29, 2011.

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• I majored in fashion design in school, and I have always wanted to design my own line of clothing, jewelry, and stuff like that; so this was just a step for me in that direction.

  Diana Ross

  Fashion, School, Lines

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• Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Smart, Data, Simplicity

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.37, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• Lisp was far more powerful and flexible than any other language of its day; in fact, it is still a better design than most languages of today, twenty-five years later. Lisp freed ITS's hackers to think in unusual and creative ways. It was a major factor in their successes, and remains one of hackerdom's favorite languages.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Powerful, Thinking, Years

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• Rushing to optimize before the bottlenecks are known may be the only error to have ruined more designs than feature creep. From tortured code to incomprehensible data layouts, the results of obsessing about speed or memory or disk usage at the expense of transparency and simplicity are everywhere. They spawn innumerable bugs and cost millions of man-hours - often, just to get marginal gains in the use of some resource much less expensive than debugging time

  Eric S. Raymond

  Memories, Men, Errors

  Eric S. Raymond (2003). “The Art of UNIX Programming”, p.23, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• In this branch of utopian real estate, architecture is no longer the art of designing buildings so much as the brutal skyward extrusion of whatever site the developer has managed to assemble.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Art, Real, Branches

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• I love clothing, and I would eventually like to design as well as act.

  Zoey Deutch

  Wells, Borderline, Clothings

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• My name is Catherine Elizabeth Deeley and I am a huge Mulberry fan . . . Almost an addict! Bags, shoes, knitwear, bikinis, whatever Emma Hill designs, I normally want in copious amounts! This is an easy, breezy, Grace Kelly in High Society piece. A timeless dress, just perfect!

  Cat Deeley

  Names, Shoes, Perfect

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• I think gardens are fantastic, and I'd love to draw and design and stuff like that. I love just planting flowers during the summer. There's something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful.

  Ed Westwick

  Beautiful, Summer, Flower

  Interview with Seventeen Magazine, www.seventeen.com. May 22, 2009.

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• I don't want to end my career and then start something. I like to do something while my career is still hot and I've always enjoyed designing.

  Serena Williams

  Fashion, Fun, Careers

  "Dixie Chick pregnant with twins; Love: 'I don't take drugs'; Diaz photog fights back". www.sfgate.com. November 5, 2003.

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• Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson star. I neglected to mention that, maybe because I was trying to place them in this review's version of the Witness Protection Program. If I were taken off the movie beat and assigned to cover the interior design of bowling alleys, I would have some idea of how they must have felt as they made this film.

  Roger Ebert

  Stars, Taken, Ideas

  Roger Ebert (2009). “Your Movie Sucks”, p.141, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The whole point of interior design is about creating environments where people can really live their lives and where you can connect with your friends and family.

  Vern Yip

  Creating, People, Family And Friends

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• The book recounts stories from my half-century of experience in the world of architecture and my journey of discovery of the importance of considering humans and nature as part of any project. It’s illustrated with my own watercolors I hope it will inspire the next generation of architects to design places we can all enjoy.

  Sim Van der Ryn

  Book, Journey, Discovery

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• Kanye is always here in my factory. In the last three years, he has come here maybe every month and worked with the employees 10 to 12 hours a day. [Kanye] loves learning about shoes, both the design and construction, and we’ve tried to design something together. In a couple of months, he could have his own special collection out.

  Giuseppe Zanotti

  Couple, Years, Shoes

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• Where health care has failed is in designing a cost containment mechanism that works.

  Peter Shumlin

  Cost, Care, Containment

  "Gov. Peter Shumlin: The man who'd bring single-payer health care to Vermont". Interview with Ezra Klein, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 10, 2011.

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• The linear design of FFXIII had a great advantage in providing players with enough time to become familiarized with the new battle system and the unique world. But on the other hand, it led to players feeling like the majority of the game was a tutorial.

  Motomu Toriyama

  Unique, Player, Hands

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• I am proud to be part of the Toys for Tots program for a second year. In addition to giving kids the chance to design a special The UPS Store/Toys for Tots car, this contest is a great way for children to learn about the importance of charitable giving.

  Dale Jarrett

  Children, Kids, Years

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• It should look as if it has always been like that, as if Nature had made it that way.
  That's good design.

  Sepp Holzer

  Looks, Way, Made

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• Not everything is design. But design is about everything. So do yourself a favor: be ready for anything.

  Michael Bierut

  Favors, Ready

  Michael Bierut (2012). “Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design”, p.13, Chronicle Books

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• Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.

  Hesiod

  Zeus, Occasions, Hard

  Hesiod, Apostolos N. Athanassakis (2004). “Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, Shield”, p.77, JHU Press

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