#desi

I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design. ↗

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

#consistency #design #goal #i #i believe

We will continue to count on your unwavering support and commitment to working with leaders of our continent in bringing about the desired renaissance of Africa. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#africa #bringing #commitment #continent #continue

I'm interested in designing for posterity. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#i #interested #posterity

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#achieve #american #american companies #because #companies

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied. ↗

— Henry George

#desires #fed #increase #man #never

The media is looking every season for a designer to tell a story. I have a long story I have to tell, continuing fluently year after year. ↗

— Helmut Lang

#continuing #designer #every #fluently #i

As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words. ↗

— John Langdon

#both #designer #fine #graphic #i

Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions. ↗

— John Langdon

#design #illusions #interwoven #into #language

Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#always #behaviour #beings #case #comes

The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#data #democracy #design #designed #effect