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If there is no destiny, there is no design. There's only life and death. My goal is to learn about life by living it, not by trying to figure out a cryptic plan that the Creator had in store for me.

If there is a well thought-out design standard, it should be followed. In practice, great design comes from great designers. That is empirically the case. If a great designer did a first-rate standard, that model should be followed. Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.

If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support.

If the universe were just electrons and selfish genes, meaningless tragedies ... are exactly what we should expect, along with equally meaningless good fortune. Such a universe would be neither evil nor good in intention ... The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

If the world were clear, art would not exist.

If we can develop and design streets so that they are wonderful, fulfilling places to be - community-building places, attractive for all people - then we will have successfully designed about one-third of the city directly and will have had an immense impact on the rest.

If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.

If we do not design policies to halt, and then reverse population growth, Nature by default will soon exact a most punishing solution

If we had no bias, if we had no preconceptions, what kind of forms could we design?

If we think about things having multiple lives, cradle to cradle, we could design things that can go back to either nature or back to industry forever.

If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.

If you are demanding registration before checkout, you need to cease this practice immediately. It is costing you a fortune.

If you are not bored by life, and your primary motto is enthusiasm and if you like your friends, family around you, it all translates into your designs. That's what keeps the creativity alive.

If you are truly innovating, you don't have a prototype you can refer to.

If you ask the wrong question, of course, you get the wrong answer. We find in design it's much more important and difficult to ask the right question. Once you do that, the right answer becomes obvious.

If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.

If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.

If you design communities for automobiles, you get more automobiles. If you design them for people, you get walkable, livable communities.

If you do good work for good clients, it will lead to other good work for other good clients. If you do bad work for bad clients, it will lead to other bad work for other bad clients.

If you do it right, it will last forever.

If you do not want what I want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong. Or if my beliefs are different from yours, at least pause before you set out to correct them. Or if my emotion seems less or more intense than yours, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel other than I do. Or if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, please let me be. I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up trying to change me into a copy of you.

If you focus on design, you can call yourself a designer. If you focus on the implementation of your design, you can call yourself an architect.

If you hate my guts and have designs to hurt me, and I see you building a cannon aimed at my house, I am not going to wait for you to finish construction.

If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an "information architect" and only use Helvetica.

If you know how to use a pencil to draw, you could draw anything. Now apply that to everything in life.

If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.

If you look at any designer you admire, whose work inspires you, and whose approach somehow resonates with you, I promise you'll find a person who does not think of what they do as just their job

If you like your remote messaging fat, dumb, and interoperable, you could also look into the SOAP libraries distributed with Ruby.

If you look at Cinderhella, from a production design aspect, I tried to find an interesting, iconic character, having her face wrapped up in bandages. That was funny. On the dream logic level, you'll see the parallels of that interesting connection that I made. There's a reason why she's called Cinderhella.

If you have to design something, choose things that we need as opposed to frivolous things that we might just want for a month or two for bragging rights.

If you jump, you best jump far.

If you look after goodness and truth, beauty will take care of itself.

If you look at my closet, there's all kinds of shoes, but at the same time I don't want to spread myself thin as far as designs and collabs.

If you never budge, don't expect a push.

If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

If you're a marketer who doesn't know how to invent, design, influence, adapt, and ultimately discard products, then you're no longer a marketer. You're deadwood.

If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page... When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful.

If you're designing out of a purely creative place, not thinking of the girl, then the consumer's not going to take notice.

If your words aren't truthful, the finest optically letter-spaced typography won't help.

If your users have many questions, it's a failure of your primary site design. It becomes not so much customer support, as much as customer complaints.

If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment.

If you stand for great service, low prices, superb quality, stylish design and environmental friendliness, you actually stand for nothing.

If you take away the fancy graphics of today's games, most of the time you're left with a shell of a game that has been done to death a million times.

If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design.

If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture.

If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.

If you travel as much as we do, you appreciate the improvements in aircraft design of less noise and more comfort - provided you don't travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly.

If you turned the fabric of our lives over, I imagined the design on the backside would be woven in the bleak grays of doubt and fear.

If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare.