#design

McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#designer #douglas #flourish #mcdonald #without

Lately, even the Waybacklist borrowers seem to be missing. Have they Been seduced by some other book club on the other side of town? Have they all bought Kindles? I have one, and I use it most nights. I always imagine the books staring and whispering, Traitor! - but come on, I have a lot of free first chapters to get through. My Kindle is a hand-me-down from my dad, one of the original models<...> There are newer Kindles with bigger screens and subtler industrial design, but this one is like Penumbra's postcards: so uncool it's cool again. ↗

— Robin Sloan

#cool #kindle #design

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

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design. ↗

— Charles Eames

#condition #need #primary #recognizing

It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake. ↗

— Junius

#mistake #never #right #should #wrong

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