#desi

If there's one thing you learn by working on a lot of different Web sites, it's that almost any design idea--no matter how appallingly bad--can be made usable in the right circumstances, with enough effort. ↗

— Steve Krug

#design

Nature doesn't have a design problem. People do. ↗

— William McDonough (Author) Michael Braungart (Author)

#nature #design

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#science #design

I am serving the purpose for which I was designed, therefore I am satisfied with my existence. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#life #philosophy #religion #science #design

Whenever something is engineered as complex, it is designed to keep you simple. ↗

— Richard Diaz

#design #engineered #simple #design

Even when he was barely conscious, his strong personality came through. At one point the pulmonologist tried to put a mask over his face when he was sedated. Jobs ripped it off and mumbled that he hated the design and refused to wear it. He ordered them to bring five different options and he would pick the one he liked. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#inspirational #design

Debugging: what an odd word. As if "bugging" were the job of putting in bugs, and debugging the task of removing them. But no. The job of putting in bugs is called programming. A programmer writes some code and inevitably makes the mistakes that result in the malfunctions called bugs. Then, for some period of time, normally longer than the time it takes to design and write the code in the first place, the programmer tries to remove the mistakes. ↗

— Ellen Ullman

#nerdy #design

The most essential prediction of Darwinism is that, given an astronomical number of chances, unintelligent processes can make seemingly-designed systems, ones of the complexity of those found in the cell. ID specifically denies this, predicting that in the absence of intelligent input no such systems would develop. So Darwinism and ID make clear, opposite predictions of what we should find when we examine genetic results from a stupendous number of organisms that are under relentless pressure from natural selection. The recent genetic results are a stringent test. The results: 1) Darwinism’s prediction is falsified; 2) Design’s prediction is confirmed. ↗

— Michael J. Behe

#chance #darwinism #evolution #id #intelligent-design

SEX is designed for people who like overcoming obstacles. ↗

— Philip Larkin

#people #sex #design

Designing a product is designing a relationship. ↗

— Steve Rogers

#design