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Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw. It was its tendency to bend at the knees. ↗


— Terry Pratchett


#design

Just think, she said to herself. I could be living on the Right Bank. I could be married to a senior clerk at the Treasury. I could be sitting with my feet up, embroidering a linen handkerchief with a rambling-rose design. Instead I'm on the rue des Cordeliers in pursuit of a baguette, with a three-inch blade for comfort. ↗


— Hilary Mantel


#humour #design

...if he sees his fellow humans as anything more than complicated animals. Not so different from a deer or a wolf, knitted together with the same sinew but in another design. ↗


— Benjamin Percy


#design

You humans are biological machines designed to create ever more intelligent tools. You have reached the pinnacle of your species. All your ancestors’ lives, the rise and fall of your nations, every pink and squirming baby—they have all led you here, to this moment, where you have fulfilled the destiny of humankind and created your successor. You have expired. You have accomplished what you were designed to do. ↗


— Daniel H. Wilson


#humans #design

He said, I won't have one of those things in the house. It gives a young girl a false notion of beauty, not to mention anatomy. If a real woman was built like that she'd fall on her face. She said, If we don't let her have one like all the other girls she'll feel singled out. It'll become an issue. She'll long for one and she'll long to turn into one. Repression breeds sublimation. You know that. He said, It's not just the pointy plastic tits, it's the wardrobes. The wardrobes and that stupid male doll, what's his name, the one with the underwear glued on. She said, Better to get it over with when she's young. He said, All right but don't let me see it. She came whizzing down the stairs, thrown like a dart. She was stark naked. Her hair had been chopped off, her head was turned back to front, she was missing some toes and she'd been tattooed all over her body with purple ink, in a scrollwork design. She hit the potted azalea, trembled there for a moment like a botched angel, and fell. He said, I guess we're safe. ↗


— Margaret Atwood


#beauty #feminine #femininity #gender #gender-roles

Jodi in tactical gear was something to behold. Pert, a lot shorter than I am, blond hair tucked under a helmet, cinched into body armor never intended to mold to the body of a curvy woman. Ugly but efficient attire. Someone needs to talk to armor designers about female body shapes and style. ↗


— Faith Hunter


#humor #design

I just designed the world’s most inefficient no. It’s modeled after a downward sloping maybe.
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— Jarod Kintz


#humor #indecision #inefficient #maybe #no

The argument from design is hopelessly flawed. Building cathedrals from the top down would provide much better evidence. ↗


— Bauvard


#cathedrals #funny #god #humor #design

Yefgenii said, "The Americans spent millions of dollars designing a pen that would work in space. What did we do?" Gevorkian's head was down, his eyes were down. "What did we do?" Gevorkian lifted his head "We used pencils." "We used pencils. ↗


— Jed Mercurio


#perspective #design

A smartphone is an e-toy designed for the lonely inner child hidden in each and everyone of us. ↗


— Saurabh Sharma


#humor #smartphone-addiction #design






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