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  1. Design is an art of situations. Designers respond to a need, a problem, a circumstance, that arises in the world. The best work is produced in relation to interesting situations — an open-minded client, a good cause, or great content. |
     
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  2. There is a way to do it better. Find it. |
     
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  3. The details are not the details. They make the design. |
     
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  4. Truly elegant design incorporates top-notch functionality into a simple, uncluttered form. |
     
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  5. If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. |
     
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    #72

  6. Design covers so much more than the aesthetic. Design is fundamentally more. Design is usability. It is Information Architecture. It is Accessibility. This is all design. |
     
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    #73

  7. Design is the application of intent - the opposite of happenstance, and an antidote to accident. |
     
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    #75

  8. A camel is a horse designed by a committee. |
     
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    #77

  9. Great design will not sell an inferior product, but it will enable a great product to achieve its maximum potential. |
     
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  10. Designers can make life more bearable by producing stuff that touches its audience rather than fucks them in the head. |
     
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    #80

  11. I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it. |
     
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    #81

  12. Design is the first signal of human intention. |
     
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    #82

  13. Eighty percent of success is showing up. |
     
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    #83

  14. I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.' |
     
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    #84

  15. If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative. |
     
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  16. Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' but not in those words. |
     
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  17. No matter how cool your interface is, it would be better if there were less of it. |
     
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    #87

  18. Descriptions are like skirts, they should be long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to keep things interesting. |
     
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    #88

  19. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. |
     
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  20. Understanding precedes action. |
     
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  21. Order is the actual key of life. |
     
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    #93

  22. It is very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better. |
     
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  23. A design should have some tension and some expression in itself. I like to compare it with the lines on a football field. It is a strict grid. In this grid you play a game and these can be nice games or very boring games. |
     
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  24. If I'd asked people what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse. |
     
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    #96

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