Layout Quotes

• Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Perfection, Institutions, Collapse

  Parkinson's Law ch. 6 (1957)

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• Anyone with a computer and a design program can create a page layout. But unless you're trained in design, it won't look very good and it won't communicate very well.

  John Maeda

  Design, Pages, Looks

  "STEM to STEAM: An Interview With RISD’s President, John Maeda". Interview with Darby Roach, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 06, 2017.

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• To dismiss basic contexts such as link colours, page layouts, navigation systems, and visual hierarchy as 'boring' or 'pedestrian' is akin to laughing at a car's steering wheel as unimaginative.

  Jeffrey Veen

  Laughing, Car, Links

  Jeffrey Veen (2001). “The Art & Science of Web Design”, New Riders Pub

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• We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who's watching my movie.

  Donald Glover

  Life, Movie, Understanding

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• How do you do original work when culture is telling you which font face to use, which layout.

  Bob Gill

  Culture, Use, Fonts

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• Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

  Tom Peters

  Business, Design Process, Poor Quality

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• The layout of textbooks, I think, has been done with an assumption that students don't read.

  James W. Loewen

  Thinking, Done, Textbooks

  "Oh What a Web Textbooks Weave…". Interview with Daniel Falcone, truthout.org. August 12, 2013.

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• There is no recipe for good layout, what must be maintained is a feeling of change and contrast. A layout man should be simple with good photographs. He should perform acrobatics when the pictures are bad.

  Alexey Brodovitch

  Simple, Men, Feelings

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• We use the word typography to describe two different things: the design of letterforms, and the layout of typeset passages on a page. Both of those experiences are really important to communicating information, especially when that information involves complex ideas.

  Michael Bierut

  Ideas, Two, Design

  Source: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

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• H. L. Mencken once said that nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. That is not true. I have come to believe that it pays to make all your layouts project a feeling of good taste, provided that you do it unobtrusively. An ugly layout suggests an ugly product. There are very few products which do not benefit from being given a first class ticket through life.

  David Ogilvy

  Believe, Class, Feelings

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• The layout was griping, the glide is awesome. Two ten-inch fins up, way up.

  Roger Ebert

  Two, Surfing, Way

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• The Grand Prix Final is an opportunity for me to go out and experience new jumping passes in competition. I put in a triple loop-half loop-triple Salchow in the second of the program. It's a very difficult jumping pass so this is a chance for me to try out the new elements and the adjusted jumping layout to get prepared for nationals.

  Ashley Wagner

  Opportunity, Jumping, Competition

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• A basic is an introduction. A fundamental is a foundation. A fundamental is a premise, idea, or fact that an entire system arises from and is based on. A fundamental determines the shape of what arises from it, much as a foundation of a house dictates its layout. A basic is how you introduce people you are teaching to the system. It is a beginning concept, often simplified to assist learning. If a fundamental is the foundation, a basic is the front door to enter the system.

  Marc MacYoung

  Teaching, Ideas, Doors

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• If there's a pool I love to hangout there and layout and get some sun. If I can ever find a second to get some sun, some Vitamin D, I will do so.

  Haley Reinhart

  Vitamin D, Sun, Vitamins

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• The heart of the problem is not so much how we see objects in depth, as how we see the constant layout of the world around us. Space, as such, empty space, is not visible, but surfaces are.

  James J. Gibson

  Heart, Space, Depth

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• After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Years, Practice

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• The ideal set-up would be the story man, the director, and the layout man, as well as musician, operating as a sort of story unit. They all should be keenly interested in the picture. No one in person should donate to an extent where he would keep the others from entering into the production and freely expressing themselves.

  Walt Disney

  Men, Design, Would Be

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• ComicsAlliance asked if I wanted to do some holiday comics using a new layout and I said ‘HELLO, NEVER IN MY NEAR-DECADE OF MAKING COMICS HAVE I EVER DONE THIS, so actually I’m really glad you asked!’

  Ryan North

  Holiday, Done, Hello

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• A person has to keep something to herself or you're life is just a layout in a magazine.

  Grace Kelly

  Magazines, Life Is, Persons

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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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• The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't changed. So memory is very available to me as I walk around.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Memories, Past, Building

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• Good visual layout shows the logical structure of a program.

  Steve McConnell

  Code Quality, Logical, Program

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• Animals come from nature. They were not designed. All my inspiration comes from nature, whether it's an animal or the layout of bark or of a leaf. Sometimes my patterns are very bold, and you can barely see where they come from, but all the textures and all the prints come out of nature.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Inspiration, Animal, Texture

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• I've always liked a formal layout and informal planting," she explained. "First get the structure right, like the bones in a face, then plant it like a crowded shoe. If you have a strong layout, you can let the plants seed themselves all over the place. Haphazard, unexpected... I like to be surprised by a garden.

  Nancy Lancaster

  Strong, Garden, Shoes

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• Below are some quotations along these lines. Select a quote for your Gothic Myspace layout or contribute one of your own.

  Laura Ramirez

  Love, Lines, Gothic

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