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Design Quotes

chad — Sun, 21 Mar 2004 19:29:00 +0000

Quite a fine collection of quotes about design from designfeast.com.

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chad — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 14:36:38 +0000

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context – a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.
Eliel Saarinen

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chad — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 15:05:21 +0000

Good design means not leaving traces of the designer and not overworking the design. If you overdo the design it will touch the beholder’s consciousness. I think that when people and things are within the boundaries of consciousness they are at their farthest from heaven.
- Naoto Fukasawa

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chad — Tue, 04 Nov 2003 18:06:44 +0000

To Design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit; it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse.
- Paul Rand

First we shape our buildings,

chad — Thu, 24 Oct 2002 16:42:28 +0000

First we shape our buildings, then they shape us, then we shape them again–ad infinitum. Function reforms form, perpetually.

- Stewart Brand

Other Thoughts on Time

chad — Mon, 07 Oct 2002 19:56:55 +0000

In doing my research on time, I wanted to know more about how people reflect on the passage of time. I perused some of the online quote sites like Bartleby.com and assembled a small list. Here are some of the better entries from that list….

Never the time and the place
And the loved one all together!
Never the Time and the Place.
Robert Browning (1812�1889)

Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.
T.S. Eliot

Time and I against any two.
Spanish proverb

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
Thomas Mann

A moment in time but time was made through that moment: for without the meaning there is no time, and that moment of time gave the meaning.
T.S. Eliot

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don�t notice whether it�s passing quickly or slowly.
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
Euripides

Time is the image of eternity.
Plato

Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
William Shakespeare

The bell strikes one. We take no note of time
But from its loss.
Edward Young

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin

If you can look into the seeds of time,
And say which grain will grow and which will not.
William Shakespeare

Time rushes by and yet time is frozen. Funny how we get so exact about time at the end of life and at its beginning. She died at 6:08 or 3:46, we say, or the baby was born at 4:02. But in between we slosh through huge swatches of time�weeks, months, years, decades even.
Helen Prejean

Any others you’d like to add?