Design Quotes - Page 28

Cryptography shifts the balance of power from those with a monopoly on violence to those who comprehend mathematics and security design.

Styles come and go, design goes on forever: solving communication problems with new tools applied to the same old common sense.

I did not want to be labelled the designer who survived the atomic bomb, and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.

Think of the design process as involving first the generation of alternatives and then the testing of these alternatives against a whole array of requirements and restraints.

And we [The Futurist artists] must invent dynamic designs to go with them and express them in equally dynamic shapes: triangles, cones, spirals, ellipses, circles, etc.

The creativity and adaptability of life expresses itself through the spontaneous emergence of novelty at critical points of instability. Every human organization contains both designed and emergent structures. The challenge is to find the right balance between the creativity of emergence and the stability of design.

All the old fellows stole our best ideas.

Dawkins asserts that final causes and design don't really exist. Unguided evolution explains it all. Francis Crick thought the same thing but was afraid people would be misled by what they actually saw. So he issued this warning: "Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved." What? A warning to ignore the obvious? Absolutely. Because if we don't ignore the obvious, we might be tempted to follow common sense and attribute the "appearance" of design to actual design.

If you look after goodness and truth, beauty will take care of itself.

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

Put hot triggers in the path of motivated people.

A 'god' who's will is resisted, designs frustrated, and purpose checkmated, possesses no title to Deity.

It seems to me that when confronted with the marvels of life and the universe, one must ask why and not just how. The only possible answers are religious. . . . I find a need for God in the universe and in my own life.

Although I was once sharply critical of the argument to design, I have since come to see that, when correctly formatted, this argument constitutes a persuasive case for the existence of God.

On the value of blind shots to golf course design.

A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape.

My work is the embodiment of dreams in one form or another.

The remarkable social impact and economic success of the Internet is in many ways directly attributable to the architectural characteristics that were part of its design. The Internet was designed with no gatekeepers over new content or services.

I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

In the early days, computers inspired widespread awe and the popular press dubbed them giant brains. In fact, the computer's power resembled that of a bulldozer; it did not harness subtlety, though subtlety went into its design.

Your culture is your brand.

Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.

It should look as if it has always been like that, as if Nature had made it that way. That's good design.

Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?