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Philip Johnson ARCHITECTURE, n: The art of how to waste space.
F.W.J. Schelling Architecture in general is frozen music.
Henry Watton Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
Mies van der Rohe see Browning
Ralph Lauren I don't design clothes, I design dreams.
Tom Peters Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.
Tim Berners-Lee Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational.
William Shakespeare See first that the design is wise and just that ascertained, pursue it resolutely do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.
Sharon Salzberg Any ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain.
Les Brown We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.
Oprah Winfrey Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.
Ivy Baker Priest Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design. ... Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other.
Charles Robert Darwin The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The results of life are uncalculated and uncalculable. The years teach much which the days never know. The persons who compose our company, converse, and come and go, and design and execute many things, and somewhat comes of it all, but an unlooked for re
Jean Cocteau The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them.
Roger Zelazny I don't know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an engineer, rather than wanting to design something--or wanting to be a writer, rather than wanting to write. It should be a by-product, not a thing in itself. Otherwise, it's just an ego trip.
C.A.R. Hoare There are two ways of constructing a software design One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
Eliel Saarinen Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.
Luck is the residue of design.
It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.
I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.
Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
There are now two great nations in the world, which starting from different points, seem to be advancing toward the same goal: the Russians and the Anglo-Americans...Each seems called by some secret design of Providence one day to hold in its hands the de
"I arrange, design, and sell shrubberies." -- Roger the Shrubber
"I arrange, design, and sell shrubberies." -- Roger
"Exceeding design specifications may be hazardous to your health!"
The problem with intelligent design theory is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable: Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet--a matter of faith, unsui
"I am Rubik of Borg. So, you like my ship design?"
"I design coastlines. I got an award for Norway."
"I didn't design the room. I just work here." -HoloDoc
"I didn't design the room; I just work here." -- The Doctor
"My ingenius battery design, please." -Dr. Fred
"Our design has less than half that variance." - Gilora
Engineering is the practice of safe and economic application of the scientific laws governing the forces and materials of nature by means of organization, design and construction, for the general benefit of mankind.
Our view. . . is that it is an essential characteristic of experimentation that it is carried out with limited resources, and an essential part of the subject of experimental design to ascertain how these should be best applied; or, in particular, to whic
"Trapped by her passionate design..."
For every living creature that succeeds in getting a footing in life there are thousands or millions that perish. There is an enormous random scattering for every seed that comes to life. This does not remind us of intelligent human design. If a man in o
"Design side effect" : Micro$oft expression for "bug"

 

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