Quotes About Design

The plan is the body

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.' A story reflects life but also redeems it: assembled on the page, even unpredictable events can be plotted, their random scatter made part of a meaningful design.

building, all tinted glass and natural lighting, was nothing like the cement tomb where

It is the very design of life to support life.

The artist in me cries out for design.

It does not occur to him that it is necessary to account for the existence of an infinite personality. He is perfectly certain that there can be no design without a designer, and he is equally certain that there can be a designer who was not designed.

The American design of a constitutional Republic is such a "complete and self-supporting scheme." The heresy that dislocates it is the introduction of the denial that judges are bound by law.

The only thing that separates us from the animals is our ability to accessorize.

The only difference between us and the animals is our ability to accessorize!

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.

Nothing dates faster than people's fantasies about the future. This is what you get when perfectly decent, intelligent and talented men start thinking in terms of space, rather than place, and about single rather than multiple meanings. It's what you get when you design for political aspirations and not real human needs. You get miles of jerry-built platonic nowhere infested with Volkswagens.

This one went unusually smoothly. When I finished it, I remarked to a friend that I felt like an engineer who had designed a machine and then sat back and realized it did everything I'd set out to do. Which made him say, quite emphatically, "No engineer has ever felt this.

God was the programmer. The laws of physics and the fundamental constants were the source code.

There is great beauty in randomness," said Hollus. "But I speak about a much more basic design. This universe has had its fundamental parameters fine-tuned to an almost infinite degree so that it would support life.

It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.

No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?

Works of architecture were, in that context, embodiments of the ideals on which the life of institutions depended.

It should go without saying that methodological naturalism does not commit one to metaphysical naturalism and thus atheism. Unfortunately, the conflation of methodological and metaphysical naturalism is frequent within current popular literature, especially among "militant atheists," who claim that science strongly supports atheism, and by some of the leading voices of Intelligent Design.

The guiding self shows intentionality and intelligence; but it is as if the intentionality and intelligence is a phenomenon that only appears when an observing ego notices a kind of behind-the-scenes design to the multiplicity of affects, dreams, visions, and patterns of behaviors. Thus, the intentionality of the guiding self may be likened to a consciousness in potential because it depends upon being perceived by an observing center of existing consciousness—the ego.

That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel.

THE PRINCIPLE OF CREATIVE LIMITATION Limitation is vital. The first step toward a well-told story is to create a small, knowable world. Artists by nature crave freedom, so the principle that the structure/setting relationship restricts creative choices may stir the rebel in you. With a closer look, however, you'll see that this relationship couldn't be more positive. The constraint that setting imposes on story design doesn't inhibit creativity; it inspires it.

Less is a bore.

Viva the mitten with wriggle room over the glove where form follows function!