Quotes About Design

Walls came down and doorways were created as the architect tried to fit individual apartments together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. In

turning the second floor into hotel-style guest rooms that could be rented to tenants to put up out-of-town friends. And in each of the four corners of the eighth floor he designed four smaller apartments. When Hardenbergh finally finished juggling rooms and spaces, there were sixty-five apartments in the Dakota, ranging in size from four to twenty rooms.

The MG 34 has been justifiably described as revolutionary, being the first mass-issue weapon that could realistically fulfil virtually any task expected of a machine gun. In design terms points of interest included a relatively light weight of just over 12kg; an ability to use either ammunition belts or drums; the options of firing from a tripod, pintle, anti-aircraft mount, or lightweight bipod; and a brisk rate of fire averaging a maximum cyclic rate of well over 800 rounds per minute.

In other words, they have failed to find the paleontological equivalent of the numerous finely graded intermediate colors (Pendleton blue, dusty rose, gun barrel gray, magenta, etc.) that interior designers covet.

There seems to be no more design in the variability of organic beings, and in the action of natural selection, than in the course which the wind blows."19

The functional design of organisms and their features would…seem to argue for the existence of a designer. It was Darwin's greatest accomplishment [however] to show that the directive organization of living beings can be explained as the result of a natural process, natural selection, without any need to resort to a Creator or other external agent."20

If a substantive chance hypothesis necessarily negates or nullifies explanations involving physical-chemical necessity and design, then the presence of a pattern necessarily negates chance.

intelligent design is an evidence-based scientific theory about life's origins that challenges strictly materialistic views of evolution.

What is the great difference," he wrote, "between supposing that God makes variable species or that he makes laws by which species vary?" A

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture like Roman design, it looks to the community.

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design.

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.

steering wheels aren't designed for monsters that aren't supposed to exist.

In the animal kingdom, the predators are easy to spot. They all have their eyes in the front of their heads to facilitate an attack. Lions, tigers, and wolves are designed by nature to kill. Antelopes, deer, and rabbit all have their eyes on the side of their heads. These prey animals are designed for flight and their vision allows them to see things coming at them peripherally. In the wild there are no exceptions to this rule. With people, it was a lot harder to tell.

Mr. Magoo Rule: Text and graphics must be easily distinguished and recognized.

When we are totally faithful to our own individuality, we are actually following a very intricate design.

Openness is also an acceptance that just as you have the inherent right to create your life as you see fit, so others have the same right with their own lives, even if their design differs from yours greatly.

I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.

Accessible design is good design.

Composite Simpler Than the Sum of Its Parts The API of a composite object should not be more complicated than that of any of its components.

from cosmology to biology, it is becoming increasingly clear that science's failure to explain matters at the most fundamental level is at least in part due to an institutional prohibition on intelligent design as one of the explanatory options.