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" A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. "

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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" If you want to communicate something, you'd better make sure that your design piece is well-dressed and that its teeth are fixed. At the same time, I still believe that if it is only stylistically great and it has nothing to say, it still is not going to make a lasting impression on anybody. "

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" Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work. "

Lance Armstrong

" I'm a fashion designer, not a shoe designer. I like to design clothes. "

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" A shoe is not only a design, but it's a part of your body language, the way you walk. The way you're going to move is quite dictated by your shoes. "

Christian Louboutin

" Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy. "

" I'm not a mother of children, but I'm a different type of mother where my approach to design is more in line with nature. It's less about dictating and more about editing and listening and allowing something to grow. So I nourish and let the material express what it wants to be. "

" Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he has every right to discard for another one, of improved design, after the harvest. "

" 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.' "

" We can't think in terms of designing products that we throw over the wall to customers, but instead, we need to design products that are upgradable and maintainable and that can be mined for materials and components that can be reused. "

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" Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment. "

" One of my most memorable moments serving the community was after I built the Live Civil Playground in Haiti, and I visited an orphanage and gave away shoes to all the kids. I also sat with them and helped them design their shoes. The smiles on their faces were priceless. "

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" I'd love there to be more larger models, but it's just not going to happen. Designers love to design for slim girls. "

" A true flag is not something you can really design. A true flag is torn from the soul of the people. A flag is something that everyone owns, and that's why they work. The Rainbow Flag is like other flags in that sense: it belongs to the people. "

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" To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons. "

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