| "Luck is the residue of design." »Branch Rickey |
| "I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe." »James Lileks |
| "Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational." »Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
| "I know what the world exists for, but I know not how it came into existence. I see the design, but not the designer. I understand the question, but not the questioner." »Kedar Joshi |
| "A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success." »Otto von Bismark |
| "Any ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain." »Sharon Salzberg |
| "See first that the design is wise and just that ascertained, pursue it resolutely do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect." »William Shakespeare |
| "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." »Douglas Noel Adams |
| "We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams." »Les Brown |
| "Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design." »Oprah Winfrey |
| "The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference." »Charles Robert Darwin |
| "Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design. ... Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other." »Ivy Baker Priest |
| "I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth." »John Adams |
| "The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them." »Jean Cocteau |
| "Engineering is the practice of safe and economic application of the scientific laws governing the forces and materials of nature by means of organization, design and construction, for the general benefit of mankind." »S. E. Lindsay |
| "I don't know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an engineer, rather than wanting to design something--or wanting to be a writer, rather than wanting to write. It should be a by-product, not a thing in itself. Otherwise, it's just an ego trip." »Roger Zelazny |
| "There are two ways of constructing a software design One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." »C.A.R. Hoare |
| "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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