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Design Quotes by Edsger Dijkstra
- Yes, I share your concern: how to program well -though a teachable topic- is hardly taught. The situation is similar to that in mathematics, where…
- Please don't fall into the trap of believing that I am terribly dogmatical about [the goto statement]. I have the uncomfortable feeling that others are…
- ... as a slow-witted human being I have a very small head and I had better learn to live with it and to respect my…
- Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.
- … what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names — otherwise you would be selling…
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- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. — Lance Armstrong
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. — Marcus Aurelius
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius
- Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. — Francis Bacon
- There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. — Francis Bacon
- If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. — Red Adair
- You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams
- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. — Douglas Adams
- Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next. — Tyra Banks