#desi

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking. ↗

— Milton Glaser

#cooking #design

Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do. ↗

— Paul Graham

#danger #design #designing #early #everyone

Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. When I work on designing livestock equipment I can test run that equipment in my head like 3-D virtual reality. In fact, when I was in college I used to think that everybody was able to do that. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#college #designing #equipment #everybody #fact

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society. ↗

— Walter Gropius

#civilized #civilized society #design #everyone #guiding

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#federal #federal government #government #just #limited

The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#countries #desire #east #other #other countries

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#donnas #engineer #engineering #few #good

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means. ↗

— Henry Hazlitt

#desire #end #ensure #means #object

I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken. ↗

— Andy Hertzfeld

#apple ii #approach #artistic #away #blew

Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet. ↗

— Jack Herer

#ensure #gases #greenhouse #greenhouse gases #growing