Flawed by Design: The Evolution of the CIA, JCS and NSC.

Small, noncomparative, highly labeled data sets usually belong in tables.

Your life success is well designed by the mental transformation you experience. That mental transformation guides you to construct powerful decisions. You can’t live life so well without mental make-ups.

Graphic Design for its own sake will never happen, because the concept cancels itself out — a poster about nothing other than itself is not Graphic Design, it’s … makin’ ART.

A shower curtain would make a great dress. If I make it for you, will you make love to me? Before you answer, you should know that I’m a bring my own bathtub kind of...

The building was designed originally to have a fifth floor added. We knew when it was in the architectural design phases that growth was on the pike, so we decided at that point to have...

Do everything in your power to make customers go confidently in the direction of their purchase intention.

GUI (Graphical User Interface) is always intuitive to those who design it.

A first-rate story is easily killed by second-rate design.

A distinctive appearance and a simple set of characteristics lead to an extremely flexible brand. (pg. 38)

Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today.

Here’s where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.

The G4 is about the nicest industrial design that I have seen anywhere,

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

The other day I tried to design a finish line, but I didn’t know where to start. So I just sat there and drank Gatorade. Ah, but that’s life, no?

If a building were shaped like a body, I’d imagine you’d exit out the rear.

Instead of one-way interruption, Web marketing is about delivering useful content at just the precise moment that a buyer needs it.Search, a marketing method that didn’t exist a decade ago, provides the most efficient and...

As power-supply solutions get more and more complex, the need for application support and design expertise grows exponentially. We want our customers to concentrate on their core competencies, while we provide all the technical expertise...

In pursuing a ‘way,’ Japanese typically move beyond an interest in craftsmanship to a kind of sacred search for the ultimate.

Planning is for the world’s great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and...

If you can design one thing, you can design everything.

If I had to drink water like my cat, I’d croak over dead in no time. Maybe it’s like eating rice with chop sticks? Both are absurdly difficult and unfathomable for me. Not that I...

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

When you want to know how things really work, study them when they’re coming apart.

There were a couple of developmental-level drawings with ash trees proposed, but we had our design associates choose different shade trees for the project.

You cannot redistribute what you don’t have. We deliberately designed some specific social programs, but did not design the economy to have a trickle-down effect, … We have planted a seed and I have paid...

That’s worth much more than any single design win.

Intuitive design happens when current knowledge is the same as the target knowledge.

You know, they had supply problems and union disputes and a few design problem to work out. So it took longer than you would think, even for The Empire.

You don’t get to decide the truth. Other people have their own experiences, just as valid. This is easy to forget. Your slice of life seems so large and unmistakeable, like a mirage of wholeness...

I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job.

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and...

The genius of Laplace was a perfect sledge hammer in bursting purely mathematical obstacles; but, like that useful instrument, it gave neither finish nor beauty to the results. In truth, in truism if the reader...

I believe I’m very normal. I’m hyper-normal. I’m more normal than anyone else I know. I think my thoughts, my indulgences, my desires, my pleasures may at first appear different, but that is only because...

(found in Just My Type by Simon Garfield p. 19)If you don’t get your type warm it will be no use at all for setting down warm human ideas … By jickity, I’d like to...

Sometimes time spent reinventing the wheel results in a revolutionary new rolling device. But sometimes it just amounts to time spent reinventing the wheel.

We have an internal check and balance system. By design we are so filled with possibility, opportunity, with greatness that when we live small, within the bottom of our capability, we innately know we should...

Competitive forces are definitely forcing manufacturers to reduce their product design cycles between changes.

We have always wanted to design in composites.

To clarify, *add* data.

What I should have said is that he thinks that there is a conflict between evolutionary biology and theism. Dennett thinks that evolutionary theory shows that it is irrational to believe that God exists; he...

Did they want what I wanted?Did they want to understand, to unlock it? To decode it? To glean, to touch, to learn, to get something, to proceed, to get somewhere, to graduate, to work, to...

Consciously or not, we feel and internalize what the space tells us about how to work. When you walk into most offices, the space tells you that it’s meant for a group of people to...

To say that life is nothing but a property of certain peculiar combinations of atoms is like saying that Shakespeare’s Hamlet is nothing but a property of a peculiar combination of letters.

How does what I’m building help consumers close the gap between who they are today and who they want to be tomorrow?

I so hate it when I’m quoted to thwart the juices and desires of the great interior design public at large’ – Daily Express

Particularly in high-end design, there was always that sensibility that they have continued to do: To keep it classic and understated.

A chair is the first thing you need when you don’t really need anything, and is therefore a peculiarly compelling symbol of civilization. For it is civilization, not survival, that requires design.

There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their...

There were certain things they had to do in the design. And there were some things they couldn’t do.