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

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

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 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 designers will use many design patterns that dovetail and intertwine to produce a greater whole.

The best designs are those that dissolve into behavior.

The best design is the simplest one that works.

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 best ideas start as conversations.

The best kind of design isn't necessarily an object, a space, or a structure: it's a process- dynamic and adaptable.

The best of life is the exercise of ingenuity-in design, in finance, in flying, in business.

The bias among architecture critics isn't against skyscrapers per se, but against the way in which their design is so heavily dictated by economic considerations - the way in which skyscrapers are real estate before they are architecture.

The big honour of the big revolutions belongs to the high intelligence who design the revolution, not to the masses who support and participate the revolution!

The bottom line for mathematicians is that the architecture has to be right. In all the mathematics that I did, the essential point was to find the right architecture. It's like building a bridge. Once the main lines of the structure are right, then the details miraculously fit. The problem is the overall design.

The boundaries of design are the same as the problem of perception.

The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

The business of schools is to design, create, and invent high-quality, intellectually demanding schoolwork that students find engaging.

The business and design of the Royal Society is: To improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanic practices, Engines and Inventions by Experiments-(not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysics, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetoric or Logick).

The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.

The cause of the six-sided shape of a snowflake is none other than that of the ordered shapes of plants and of numerical constants; and since in them nothing occurs without supreme reason-not, to be sure, such as discursive reasoning discovers, but such as existed from the first in the Creators's design and is preserved from that origin to this day in the wonderful nature of animal faculties, I do not believe that even in a snowflake this ordered pattern exists at random.

The challenge is to develop visions, strategies, design and innovation, not just for surviving but for thriving in this new globalising society.

The challenge is about taking things that are infinitely complex and making them simpler and more understandable.

The central activity of engineering, as distinguished from science, is the design of new devices, processes and systems.

The Church encourages those in power to be truly at the service of the common good of their peoples. She urges financial leaders to take account of ethics and solidarity. And why should they not turn to God to draw inspiration from his designs? In this way, a new political and economic mindset would arise that would help to transform the absolute dichotomy between the economic and social spheres into a healthy symbiosis.

The combination of an individual[i.e., a client] with a positive idea of living and a good designer is the great force in contemporary decoration. I don't care how good the designer is, I am sure that he [or she] would rahter have a person with definite ideas rahter than have to work with a negative figure as a client.

The choices you make today design your future

The closure of the book is an illusion largely created by its materiality, its cover. Once the book is considered on the plane of its significance, it threatens infinity.

The combination of threads, remote-procedure-call interfaces, and heavyweight object-oriented design is especially dangerous... if you are ever invited onto a project that is supposed to feature all three, fleeing in terror might well be an appropriate reaction.

The companies that get innovation right, again and again, are the ones that feel what their customers feel. That is true user-centered innovation

The committee discloses that even after the U.S. government learned of the diversion of U.S. designs for nuclear warheads in late 1995, the Clinton Administration failed to take steps immediately to improve security.

The computer industry is creatively bankrupt.

The concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature (a very recursive idea).

The conclusion of design flows naturally from the data; we should not shrink from it; we should embrace it and build on it.

The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought with nature.

The conscious principle in this design has been to achieve forms that could create experiences, and that could at the same time welcome everyone's experiences with the serenity of an effortless development.

The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it.

The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

The creative folks intuitively design what's best for the user, while data folks provide great insights. The true unicorns are those who can go end-to-end designing, building, measuring, analyzing, and iterating with a combination of user intuition and deep analytics.

The creativity and adaptability of life expresses itself through the spontaneous emergence of novelty at critical points of instability. Every human organization contains both designed and emergent structures. The challenge is to find the right balance between the creativity of emergence and the stability of design.

The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

The danger for any artist whose work is both recognizable and critically acclaimed is complacent repetition - the temptation to churn out easily identifiable, eagerly welcomed, and readily salable designs.

The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new technologies.

The danger of these collaborations across disciplines is in having too strict of a division of labor - in my case, of getting stuck doing the music. When I make an album, I write music, I write lyrics, I come up with the visual design, etc. I get to do all of that stuff.

The design of a city is like a strange archeology.

The deeper you go the more likely you will discover something of value