#design

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#architecture #combine #community #design #french

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#beyond #both #concerned #design #garden

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy. ↗

— Bill Gates

#been #beg #binary #bow #coming

Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#designed #did #everything #father #i

You see me, I wanted to be fashion designer. I became fashion designer. So I think that everything is possible. ↗

— Jean Paul Gaultier

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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