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" A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker. "

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" The craftless anarchy of the Beat poets on the one hand, and the extreme control of Henry James on the other, suggest that for most human beings, just as both freedom and discipline are necessary in life, serendipity and design must coexist in a work to make it readable. "

" How do you convince somebody to host a stranger for the weekend? That's not a trivial thing. It's not something I think you can throw technology at, marketing at, or sales at. We threw design at it because that's all we knew, and in doing so, I feel like we brought a human touch to it, which is so needed. "

" Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold. "

James Randolph Adams

" Sometimes living in a room that's badly designed isn't the worst thing in the world. Trust me - this is a fact! Living in a room that has no design whatsoever is even worse. I've learned this from my many clients over the years that have moved into new houses and just can't figure out where to begin. "

" As a director, I design every movie to be true to itself, and damn it if they like it, and damn it if they don't. "

Guillermo del Toro

" 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

" My job is to make desirable, luxurious, beautiful clothing and accessories women want to buy. My first decision is always based on, 'Can I do this in a more sustainable way without sacrificing design?' If I can, then there is no reason not to. "

Stella McCartney

" Every project that you write about or read about, it goes through years of hard work. We write a screenplay; we design. Then you submit those and the budget, and it's out of your hands. "

Guillermo del Toro

" When he entered the Oval Office - by fate, not by design - Citizen Ford knew that he was not perfect, just as he knew he was not perfect when he left. But what president ever was? "

" Internet safety begins at home and that is why my legislation would require the Federal Trade Commission to design and publish a unique website to serve as a clearinghouse and resource for parents, teachers and children for information on the dangers of surfing the Internet. "

Mike Fitzpatrick

" I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral. "

" Deep down, creationists realize they will never win factual arguments with science. This is why they have construed their own science-like universe, known as Intelligent Design, and eagerly jump on every tidbit of information that seems to go their way. "

" My strengths as a businessman lie in the design and sale of women's shoes, and I have never been comfortable with complicated or technical legal or business documents. "

" I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings. "

Daniel Libeskind

" Everything else - music, cinematography, costumes, design, acting - can be judged at face value. But when you're looking at editing, you don't know what the totality of the material was, and you don't know the working dynamic between a director and an editor - whether the editor was micromanaged or given free rein. It's very difficult. "

Christopher Rouse

" It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design. "

" Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste. "

William Butler Yeats

" If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers. "

" I want to have all that scientific information that we're building be used in designing the future so that people who make geographic decisions - and here it's not just land-use planners, but it's everyone: foresters, transportation engineers, people who buy a house - can analyze all of these information layers and design a future. "

Jack Dangermond

" It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion. "

" Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look. "

" 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.' "

" I don't design houses with the nuclear family idea because I don't believe in it as a concept. "

" Companies that are design-led understand that design is not a deliverable; it is a profound manifestation of the human spirit. "

" I'm representative of 21st century Irish design, so I promote Irishness all over the world wherever I go. "

" In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power. "

" I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response. "

" As an artist, as I design and lay out a page, the less-important things, things I want you to spend less time looking at, I draw them very small, maybe even silhouette them. The more-important pivotal scenes, I draw them larger, maybe even a double-page spread. "

" I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf. "

" The details are not the details. They make the design. "