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" Nike is the uniform for kids all over the world, and African design has been killed by Nike. Africans no longer want to wear their own designs. "

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" I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object. "

" The genius idea of industrialism was the concept of the Model T: In exchange for something cheap and well-made, we'd forgo unique, lovely design. "

" 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

" There are lots of examples of routine, middle-skilled jobs that involve relatively structured tasks, and those are the jobs that are being eliminated the fastest. Those kinds of jobs are easier for our friends in the artificial intelligence community to design robots to handle them. They could be software robots; they could be physical robots. "

Erik Brynjolfsson

" It's funny now how much we look at - whatever you want to call it: art, design, culture stuff, film - online, and how in the online world, you're instantly global. "

" I like to work in a small team. There is only 18 of us on the design team. Nobody has ever left. "

" When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that,' we say 'Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?' Few are up to the task. "

" 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. "

" I don't design. I get what I think is a big idea, and I put the idea down. I'm not a designer. I'm a communicator. "

" Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work. "

" The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all. "

" People crave predictability, and when you design and use systems, you give people predictability. More importantly, when you build systems, they can help you orchestrate, and orchestration helps you create the habits that continuously improve the systems! "

Michael E. Gerber

" A great dream of mine would be to run a design studio full of scientists who think about science as creatively as if they were doing art. "

" I'm also interested in pets with alopecia. And design. I'm surprised I haven't gone through with a homeware brand. The bedding, the comforters, the candles, the this and that. I would like to design everything. "

Lisa Vanderpump

" Everyday people are not very good designers. "

" There are usually three sections of people who like my work. There are those who like them aesthetically. They see beauty in the images. Second, there are those who like the horror aspect, which is by design, and I like that. Third, there are those who are moved by the historical or political nature of them. They want to talk about them. "

" What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together. "

" There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple. "

" His father is governor of Media, and though he has the greatest command given him of all the rest of my generals, he still covetously desires more, and my being without issue spurs him on to this wicked design. But Philotas takes wrong measures. "

Alexander the Great

" I feel like the business side came more naturally to me along with the product design side, but managing and effectively leading large organizations of people is something that is perpetually challenging and the topic on which I am constantly looking for good advice. "

Stewart Butterfield

" The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it. "

" In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good. "

" Once you come up with a premise, you have to work out how it all happened. It's a bit like coming up with a spectacular roof design first. Before you can get it up there, you need to build a solid foundation and supporting structure. "

Linwood Barclay

" When I arrived at Harvard, I wanted to design a course in political theory that would have interested me, back when I was started out, in a way that the standard things didn't. "

" We are spiritual beings whether we want to admit it or not, and inherent in our DNA is a design to return us home - home to our true essence, our greatest self, our limitless self. "

" I'm looking for best practices constantly. Apple has beautiful design, beautiful product, incredibly functional. But mostly it's about picking product, getting behind it, marketing it and introducing it to a customer. What they've done just inspires me. "

Millard Drexler

" Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long. "

" Design our world so that we have positive social and environmental side effects. "

" Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical. "

" By no definition of any modern scientist is intelligent design science, and it's a waste of our students' time to subject them to it. "

Lawrence M. Krauss