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I'm never really upset when a person lies because I don't place much value in truths. When you look at the grand design, you realize that there are no truths, only stories. In other words, the only truth is that we are all stories. Lies are just part of the story that we tell. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#stories #truths #design

In other words - and this is the rock-solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation's Galaxywide success is founded - their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#science-fiction #design

In reality, though, most of the time we don’t choose the best option—we choose the first reasonable option, a strategy known as satisficing. ↗

— Steve Krug

#psychology #usability #web-design #design

As a rule, conventions only become conventions if they work. ↗

— Steve Krug

#usability #web-design #design

You are not the problem but fashion designers, who are limiting themselves creatively. ↗

— Gloria D. Gonsalves

#design

To blacks, it was abundantly clear what groups like the NAACP and CORE wanted; the NOI, by contrast and largely by design, had no clear social program that realistically could be implemented (215). ↗

— Manning Marable

#design

I thought back to that precious moment ... when he'd first pulled me into his arms. How strong I'd felt. That same feeling of strength had washed over me afresh when Twila and the other Splendora sisters prayed with me. And now, as I watched my parents embrace, I realized the truth: there really is strength in numbers. No matter what I faced in this life, I could handle it with the people I loved surrounding me. ↗

— Janice Thompson

#family #design

Patience's design flaw became obvious for the first time in my life: the outcome is decided not during the course of play but when the cards are shuffled, before the game even begins. How pointless is that? ↗

— David Mitchell

#luck #patience #solitaire #design

Winners see the dream and develop plans while the rest see the obstacles and develop justifications. ↗

— Orrin Woodward

#obstacles #dreams

We are, as a culture and as a specias, in the midst of a great awakening, remembering that there is a nature of things, an inherent, Divine design. The more aware of and in alignment with that design we can become, the more we will experience the deep desires of our hearts and souls, and perhaps, together, we can truly create a world that works for everyone. ↗

— Jeffrey R. Anderson

#culture #divine-design #great-awakening #hearts-and-souls #species