1,339 Quotes About Design

  • Author Miriam Schapiro
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    Victor Papenack, who was teaching design, had his students making radios for a penny each that could be shipped to Third World people.

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  • Author Neal Stephenson
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    Crappy old OSes have value in the basically negative sense that changing to new ones makes us wish we'd never been born.

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  • Author Nikolay Sevastiyanov
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    We're starting to design this new transportation system to support the International Space Station (ISS) once it's complete.

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  • Author Paul Saffo
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    The future belongs to neither the conduit or content players, but those who control the filtering, searching and sense-making tools we will rely on to navigate through the expanses of cyberspace.

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  • Author Peter Singer
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    Most of the robots being developed for home use are functional in design - Gecko's homecare robot looks rather like the Star Wars robot R2-D2. Honda and Sony are designing robots that look more like the same movie's 'android' C-3PO.

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  • Author Peter Stuyvesant
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    The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England.

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  • Author Philippe Starck
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    In our civilization, there are permanent forms which are part of every epoch and every culture. They are not especially difficult to detect. A minimal knowledge of physics, astrophysics, and perhaps mathematics, brings to light certain patterns that make these subjects easier to understand. It is striking to see the extreme similarity between these scientific propositions and the forms that recur in all times, places and civilizations.

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