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The sudden hunch, the creative leap of mind that "sees" in a flash how to solve a problem in a simple way, is something quite different from general intelligence.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

The task of the architectural project is to reveal, through the transformation of form, the essence of the surrounding context.

The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century.

The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.

The term architecture is used here to describe the attributes of a system as seen by the programmer, i.e., the conceptual structure and functional behavior, as distinct from the organization of the data flow and controls, the logical design, and the physical implementation. i. Additional details concerning the architecture

The temptation to believe that the Universe is the product of some sort of design, a manifestation of subtle aesthetic and mathematical judgment, is overwhelming. The belief that there is "something behind it all" is one that I personally share with, I suspect, a majority of physicists.

The thing is, if you're a designer, then you want to constantly push yourself and your designs. When we make a new collection, we're changing shapes, we're changing patterns. We get a dress on a model, and it's our first time seeing what the dress really looks like on a woman's body.

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they're not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

The three foundations of judgement: Bold Design, Constant Practice, and Frequent Mistakes.

The token of a true cosmos is in fact a particular kind of design, referred to in the book of Genesis in the phrase ‘God created Man in his own image’. This ‘divine image’, the characteristics of which we must study in detail, can be found on all levels, and is the hallmark of a cosmos.

The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works and in reality the computer has a lot of influence on design.

The tragedy of our time is that we've got it backwards, we've learned to love techniques and use people.

The truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it.

The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.

The ultimate design is little different from the natural world.

The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years.

The ultimate design of the Mysteries ... was to lead us back to the principles from which we descended, ... a perfect enjoyment of intellectual [spiritual] good.

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

The unifying thread through all these different aspects of music business is just my attraction toward working with sounds and designing new scary, evil, dark sounds.

The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995.

The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it.

The upward thrust of evolution as part of the design becomes something to preserve and revere.

The urgency for reducing climate emissions is too great. We must take our collective experience and use it toward making green design a part of all design.

The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.

The U.S. government knew that China wanted to acquire sensitive U.S. technology, and instead of implementing a policy to prevent them from acquiring the information, the government all but gave them an invitation to take our equipment and designs.

The very essence of gravity was design, and, consequently, deceit; it was a taught trick to gain credit of the world for more sense end knowledge than a man was worth; and that with all its pretensions it was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined it--a mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind.

The Very Big Stupid is a thing which breeds by eating The Future. Have you seen it? It sometimes disguises itself as a good-looking quarterly bottom line, derived by closing the R&D department.

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

The way a dancer can bring the crowd to its feet with a drawn-out, well-executed pirouette is the excitement I wanted to capture with this design.

The vast majority of the shuttle program was a success. We learned so much about how a reusable spacecraft interacts with its environment, how it ages-and what to design next time.

The vision shared by both [French utopian] Charles Fourier and Robert Owen was for an entire town to fit into one structure. Owen's design for what he called a "parallelogram" was essentially to have a whole city in one building, laid out around a huge quadrangle. Fourier's scheme was to build a massive Versailles-like structure that he called a "phalanstery." In both cases they had these architectural dreams that we now recognize as pretty unappealing.

The Way of Tao is this: It strives not, but conquers; It speaks not, but all is made clear; It summons not, but its house is crowded; It contrives not, but the design is perfect.

The visual image is a kind of tripwire for the emotions.

The way to do good basic design isn't actually to be really smart about it, but to try to have a few basic concepts.

The whole point of design is to make people feel better about themselves.

... the whole design of the gospel is to lead us onward and upward to greater achievement, even, eventually, to godhood. This great possibility was enunciated by the Prophet Joseph Smith in the King Follet sermon. It is this grand and incomparable concept: As God now is, man may become!

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.

The work needs to get out of your head and on to the table, and it needs to be done from the heart.

The word design is everything and nothing. The design and the product itself are inseparable.

The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.

The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.

The woman of tomorrow will be efficacious, seductive and without contest superior to man. It is for this woman that I conceive my designs.

The world is complex, and so too must be the activities that we perform. But that doesn't mean that we must live in continual frustration. No. The whole point of human-centered design is to tame complexity, to turn what would appear to be a complicated tool into one that fits the task, that is understandable, usable, enjoyable.

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

The world's not what I want it to be. But then no one ever said I had the right to design the world.

The world is super-stupid. You have by far the best designers in America! And you do the most stupid cars in the world! They put billions into their stupid designs for General Motors, Chrysler, Buick, or who knows what. The designers in America must be frustrated. I am not frustrated, because I am not a designer - I am a philosopher, and all philosophers have said for ages that the world around them is stupid.

The world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design.

The worst misstep one can make in design is to solve the wrong problem.

They enjoy giving form to ideas. If designers were made of ideas, they'd be their own clients.