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Design Quotes by Paola Antonelli
- People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the…
- Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.
- The idea of being able to build things bottom up, atom by atom, has made [scientists] all into tinkerers. And all of a sudden scientists…
- Not all design is for the general good.
- I consider video games a form of design that is amazingly important today and that is going to become even more important in the future,…
- In an ideal world, social responsibility would be a prerequisite for design, and designers would vow to produce beautiful, useful, positive, responsible, functional, and economical…
- I want people to understand that design is so much more than cute chairs - that it is first and foremost everything that is around…
- Designers need to be mavericks, because the best way to design a successful object is to pretend that either it never existed or that people…
- Life is tough; thank God there's design.
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- Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. — Lance Armstrong
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- 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