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Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.

Symbols are oracular forms-mysterious patterns creating vortices in the substances of the invisible world.

Take a human body, a male and a female, it is obvious that certain parts are meant together. There is a purpose and a design for it and there is a result of that.

Systems programmers are the high priests of a low cult.

Take the time and do some small thing that will be noticed and remembered. Choose your objects carefully, and buy only what you love.

Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately.

Teachers of design should help a student to find their own voice. In other words, not be a templated version of the teacher, but rather to help them [the students] unfold what they already know and can bring to the table.

Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.

Technology may change rapidly, but people change slowly. The principals [of design] come from understanding of people. They remain true forever.

Terrorism is not a limited threat, it is a world wide operation. Today, many countries in the east, and in the west, in the north, and in the south, have been the targets of the nefarious designs of terrorists.

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!

... that order generated without design can far outstrip plans men consciously contrive

That's a hobby of mine - to do whatever I can for unusual for-hire creative projects. I am waiting for someone to really challenge me - obviously I'm often approached to do film related work, but I would be very happy to design a bar or an amusement park ride. I would love to be an imagineer!

That's always my downfall - when I start not having fun or not feeling passionate about what I'm doing. But that's why I love Emilio Pucci. There are some design houses that operate on a more intellectual level, but the way Pucci has always worked is more spontaneous and instinctual.

That's a sound design thing but then we wanted to do music that would not disturb it and at the same time drive it.

That's just tragic, that you can spend four years of your life studying the design of three dimensional objects and not make one.

That's the sound design. I watched it sixty times because we were constantly tweaking. The same thing comes twice, right? Once it comes in the beginning when he's about to discover that he needs to come out and one is the dream where he's flattered (??) and then he comes out. The last one, instead of going bigger, we made it smaller. We removed elements and thinned it out. So it doesn't drive him. He drives the music rather than the other way around.

That's what a conscience is made of, scar tissue ... Little strips and pieces of remorse sewn together year by year until they formed a distinctive pattern, a design for living.

That strange new zone between medium and message. That zone we call the interface.

That's what all we are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else.

That we don't design agriculture to be sustainable is totally eerie. We design it to be a disaster, and of course, we get a disaster.

The advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable that we will begin to design our own evolutionary progress.

The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.

The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualist accounts of evolution.

The aliens on this planet are also attempting to clone or replicate the human form artificially. Their original form, being humanoid, cannot pass the field that was established around the Earth. But if they can clone or cybernetically change their forms, it may help their designs. This is why virtual reality, cybernetics, cloning, and nanotechnology are in vogue today.

The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence.

The alleviation of human error, whether design or intrinsically human, continues to be the most important problem facing aerospace safety.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence. I feel like people on the street today probably dress better than they did in the '50s.

The Alessi relationship and the Target one has broadened the role of architects in society and broadened the concept that design belongs to everyone.

The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question

The Ardent Hymn that Unites Peoples.

The architect who really designs for a human being has to know a great deal more than just the Five Canons of Vitruvius.

The argument from design is ultimately an appeal to miraculous causes, i.e., causes that do not, and cannot, occur in the natural course of events. This is why an explanation via design is not a legitimate alternative to scientific and other naturalistic modes of explanation. To refer to a miraculous cause is to refer to something that is inherently unknowable, and this sanctuary of ignorance explains nothing at all. However much it may soothe the imagination of the ignorant, it does nothing to satisfy the understanding of a rational person.

The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.

The architecture of change involves the design and construction of new patterns, or the reconceptualization of old ones, to make new, and hopefully more productive, actions possible.

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

The artificial intelligence approach may not be altogether the right one to make to the problem of designing automatic assembly devices. Animals and machines are constructed from entirely different materials and on quite different principles. When engineers have tried to draw inspiration from a study of the way animals work they have usually been misled; the history of early attempts to construct flying machines with flapping wings illustrates this very clearly.

The argument from design stands or falls on whether it can be demonstrated that some aspect of the universe such as its origin or biological life could not have come about naturally. The burden of proof is ... on the supernaturalist to demonstrate that something from outside nature must be introduced to explain the data.

The art of automobile design has progressed, until today it is regarded as one of the most important factors in the marketing of the automobile.

The beauty is in finding, not in what you find ; that is just an excuse.

The basic principal of recursive design is to make the parts have the same power as the whole.

The beauty of design ought to be totally incidental to the enterprise itself.

The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern.

The best design teams are not people who are exactly the same...otherwise you're just sitting and telling, 'You're fabulous.' 'No, you're fabulous.'

The best design reveals itself during a long fatiguing process of digging into the subconscious.

The best designs of all are organic, evolving from the subtleties of the ground they inhabit.

The best design explicitly acknowledges that you cannot disconnect the form from the material - the material informs the form.

The best design tool is a long eraser with a pencil at one end.

The "Be good" concept also comes up when we design our products. We want them to have positive social effects.