#la

I'd guess that 80 percent of the people who work for Playboy are feminists. ↗

— Christie Hefner

#guess #i #people #percent #playboy

Places matter. Their rules, their scale, their design include or exclude civil society, pedestrianism, equality, diversity (economic and otherwise), understanding of where water comes from and garbage goes, consumption or conservation. They map our lives. ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

#landscape #place #design

Why can't you summon a command line and search your real-world home for 'Honda car keys,' and specify rooms in your house to search instead of folders or paths in your computer's home directory? It's a crippling design flaw in the real-world interface. ↗

— Richard Dooling

#singularity #the-singularity #design

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose. ↗

— Charles Eames

#arranging #best #design #elements #particular

If she knew me as I really am she would despise me, and certainly not aid or abet my evil designs. To veil their vices from the sight of the good is the only resource of those who are not blind and know themselves to be vicious.' Thus was I confirmed in habits of hypocrisy; and these, for a time, worked only too effectually to my advantage. ↗

— William Beckford

#disguise #dissimulate #evil #good #honesty

And when all your faith is gone let it be me, if it's a friend you need let it be me ↗

— Ray Lamontagne

#friends #hope #love #relationships #song

I wanted to study graphic design, because I wanted to work in an office with designer desks, ergonomic chairs, pool tables, and walls so colorful it looks like a flock of flamingoes exploded and splattered evenly from floor to ceiling. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#explosion #flamingo #flamingoes #graphic-design #job

The Jungle Bush Beaters didn't last too long as a group, but we had a pretty good time while we did. ↗

— Levon Helm

#did #good #good time #group #had

Law is not as disinterested as our concepts of law pretend; law serves power; law in large measure is a recapitulation of the status quo; it confirms a rigid order designed to insulate the beneficiaries of the status quo from the disturbances of change. The painful truth--one with a long history--is that police are around in large part to guarantee a peaceful disgestion for the rich. ↗

— William Sloane Coffin Jr.

#change

I'm the designated sane person. ↗

— Bonnie Rice

#humor #sane #design