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James Dyson

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"Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy."
— Erma Bombeckdesign
"A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering."
— Freeman Dysondesign
"I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves."
— Anna Quindlendesign
"After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared."
— Arthur Ericksondesign
"Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated."
— Paul Randdesign
"Luck is the residue of design."
— Branch Rickeydesign

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"For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design."

-Michael Arad

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"I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my design only fits within an 'ism' kind of bothers me."

-Michael Arad

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"Initially, it was the unpractical in fashion that brought me to design my own line. I felt that it was much more attractive to cut clothes with respect for the living, three-dimensional body rather than to cover the body with decorative ideas."

-Jil Sander

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"It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe."

-Jil Sander

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"Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do."

-Paul Graham

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"I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things."

-K. Eric Drexler

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"Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool."

-Malcolm Mclaren

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"Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or communications we are witnessing unprecedented global transformation - the result of which is impossible to predict."

-Malcolm Mclaren

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"So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan."

-Amy Waldman

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"I have had this view of the optimization of the electrode design for a long time. Historically we went through various phases in the work and eventually worked on large sheets - very large sheets - of palladium."

-Martin Fleischmann

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"Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently - the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs 'good tricks.'"

-Daniel Dennett

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"There is a group of individuals who are radical jihadists. We need to call them by name. They believe it is OK to kill people in the name of their religion. It is not all of Islam. It is not all Muslims. But there is a subgroup who believe it is OK. In fact, it is their plan and design to kill people."

-Tim Pawlenty

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"And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins."

-Thomas Keneally

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"So much of it is the design of the shot or the motion of the character it's the work you do so that it has the same things that are in the movie. In just a few frames it's got to communicate something clearly and dramatically."

-Dennis Muren

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"Unfortunately, the client that exists today is still pretty much the prototype design."

-Shawn Fanning

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"English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market."

-Norman Spinrad

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"My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians."

-Robert Moog

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"Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. It's like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level."

-Robert Moog

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"We used to be referred to as bakers and then we became known as cake decorators and now we are known as cake designers. I teach at the French Culinary Institute in New York and cake design is a legitimate profession."

-Ron Ben-Israel

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"It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus in on the band, but instead focused in on a theme."

-Mike McCready

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"Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill."

-Norm Dicks

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"I design some of my own clothes now."

-Kiernan Shipka

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"I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary."

-Jonathan Mayhew

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"It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it."

-Richard Steele

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"I don't set goals. Like, that's what I want to be doing however many years from now. I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes."

-Ayumi Hamasaki

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"And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight."

-Umberto Guidoni

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"Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them."

-Isaac Barrow

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"In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry."

-Ivanka Trump

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"It is very important to lead the field and innovate in game design."

-John Romero

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"You have to design and program differently. Combat action in an MMO is so different to combat in a first-person shooter."

-John Romero

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