Quotes About Design

This will be the age of Dior, ma petite.

The flowery scent of the new perfume Tian had designed – to be called 'Miss Dior' after Catherine

Goal setting is good stewardship. Instead of letting things happen, goals help us make things happen. Instead of living by default, goals help us live by design. Instead of living out of memory, goals help us live out of imagination.

Part of discovering the adventure God has designed you for is learning how to frame it or reframe it.

To develope [sic] the powers of the Creator is our proper employment—and to imitate Creativeness by combination our most exalted and self-satisfying Delight.

Cohesion: each function should have a single, unified purpose. When designed well, each of your functions should do one thing — something you can summarize in a simple declarative sentence. If that sentence is very broad (e.g., "this function implements my whole program"), or contains lots of conjunctions (e.g., "this function gives employee raises and submits a pizza order"), you might want to think about splitting it into separate and simpler functions.

composites. We'll explore this pattern in more detail in Chapter 31, which is really more about design than about Python. As a quick example, though, we could use this composition idea to code our Manager extension by embedding a Person, instead of inheriting from it.

Still, object embedding, and design patterns based upon it, can be a very good fit when embedded objects require more limited interaction with the container than direct customization implies.

freedom of expression is great for art, but lousy for engineering.

Humans, after all, weren't actively hostile toward most of the species we'd made extinct over the millennia of our ascendance; they simply weren't part of our design. The same could turn out to be true of superintelligent machines, which would stand in a similar kind of relationship to us as we ourselves did to the animals we bred for food, or the ones who fared little better for all that they had no direct dealings with us at all.

Americans sense that something is wrong with the places where we live and work and go about our daily business," wrote social critic James Howard Kunstler in 1996. "We drive up and down the gruesome, tragic suburban boulevards of commerce, and we're overwhelmed at the fantastic, awesome, stupefying ugliness of absolutely everything in sight… as though the whole thing had been designed by some diabolical force bent on making human beings miserable.

You are a child of mine, Born of my own design, And you bear the hard of life. No matter where you go, Oh, you will always know, That you've been made free in Christ, And you are a child of mine!

The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.

They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter.

Yes, I've now got this nice little apartment in New York, one of those L-shaped ones. Unfortunately, it's a lower case l.

#3 pencils and quadrille pads.

Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books.

I am sure in some years from now you will see new posters with just white space and four lines in Garamond.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

To design an easy-to-use interface, pay attention to what users do, not what they say. Self-reported claims are unreliable, as are user speculations about future behavior.

Style of the future is the convergence of function and fashion.

The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.

Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.

I believe in the near future we will 3D print our buildings and houses.