Quotes About Design

If we can put a man on the moon, we can make pantyhose comfortable.

There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye.

Topology is destiny,' he said, and put the drawers on. One leg at a time.

Daniel understood the complaint. For Daniel, too, had once designed a building, and savored the thrill of seeing it built, only to endure the long indignity of watching the owner clutter it up with knick-knacks and furniture.

The Galvanick Lucipher is of antique design. Ghnxh, who is about a hundred years old, can only smile in condescension at Waterhouse's U.S Navy flashlight. In the sotto voce one might use to correct an enourmous social gaffe, he explains that the galvanic lucifer is of such a superior design as to make any further reference to the Navy model a grating embarrassment for everyone concerned.

A gazebo on top of a welding rig" was how Yul might have described it, if only he had been here.

Now he had learned that a machine, simple in its design, could produce results of infinite complexity.

So it's not an architectural masterpiece. When Da5id and Hiro and the other hackers wrote The Black Sun, they didn't have enough money to hire architects or designers, so they just went in for simple geometric shapes. The avatars milling around the entrance don't seem to care.

Remember, these things are designed for amateurs." "Tell me about it," Ivy snorted. "The user interface is so easy to use, I can't do anything.

Disney and Apple/Microsoft are in the same business: short-circuiting laborious, explicit verbal communication with expensively designed interfaces. Disney is a sort of user interface unto itself—and more than just graphical. Let's call it a Sensorial Interface. It can be applied to anything in the world, real or imagined, albeit at staggering expense.

HE WORKED IT OUT FROM FIRST PRINCIPLES ON THE WHITEBOARD

So GUIs use metaphors to make computing easier, but they are bad metaphors.

He wondered whether the designers of the phone had performed clinical studies on snoozers in order to decide on the nine-minute interval. Why not eight minutes, or ten? The makers of the phone were famously particular about design. This had to have been data-driven.

Disney and Apple/Microsoft are in the same business: short-circuiting laborious, explicit verbal communication with expensively designed interfaces.... We have no choice but to trust some nameless artist at Disney or programmer at Apple or Microsoft to make a few choices for us, close off some options, and give us a conveniently packaged executive summary.

Topology is destiny

There is no coincidence in the universe—only a grand design; an incredible "snowflake.

Nothing happens by chance. Nothing.

Down there between our legs, it's like an entertainment complex in the middle of a sewage system. Who designed that?

Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.

Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem.

Flynn looked back over the Cathedral and glanced at the blueprints. This building was shaped like a cross.

though it had been called into being, not by God Almighty, but by the Army Corps of Engineers, who liked to put the finishing touches on Creation.

You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and a mastery over words.

The modern-day dollar bill acquired its current design in 1957. Since then its purchasing power, relative to the consumer price index, has declined by a staggering 87 per cent. Average annual inflation in that period has been over 4 per cent