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“I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.”
Charles Darwin
“A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success”
Otto von Bismarck
“Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.”
Louis Kahn
“Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.”
Marcus Garvey
“In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.”
Steve Jobs
“Design is everything. Everything!”
Paul Rand
“The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.”
Dorothea Dix
“Without aesthetic, design is either the humdrum repetition of familiar cliches or a wild scramble for novelty. Without the aesthetic, the computer is but a mindless speed machine, producing effects without substance. Form without relevant content, or content without meaningful form.”
“Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.”
Erma Bombeck
“A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.”
