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The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern. -- Milan Kundera
Chaos Magick can be understood as the discovery and application of effective techniques and scripts to maximize human design for living. -- Phil Hine
The structure of the family is not born in nature but in human design. What we can do, we can also undo. -- Lillian B. Rubin
Strong evidence suggests that we are dealing with a phenomenon that is being caused by palpable, solid objects whose characteristics are not of human design, and whose behavior is suggestive of intelligent control. -- Peter Davenport
Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design. -- Adam Ferguson
Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society? -- Robert Shea
The human body is not designed for swimming in minus 1.7 degree centigrade water. -- Lewis Gordon Pugh
Human beings are not designed to be alone. None of God's creatures are. -- Chely Wright
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws. -- Ben Whishaw
Classical design is a mirror of the human mind. It's how we see the world. -- Robert McKee
The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news. -- Daniel Kahneman
Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! -- Mackenzie Astin
Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed. -- Paul Ryan
Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment. -- Craig Venter
Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution. -- Ivan Chermayeff
You can almost say that a design error is a human error because, after all, it's we humans who do the designing. -- Henry Petroski
To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object that is designed to snuff it out. -- Jean Hanff Korelitz
I believe that human beings are born first and given passports later. I'm really thankful for my journey. And it's a journey I didn't design. -- Alfonso Cuaron
We have designed a capitalist system wrong. We assume human beings are one-dimensional, all they do is make money, so we've created a money-centric world. -- Muhammad Yunus
Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature. -- Ai Weiwei
Ultimately, Captchas are useless for spam because they're designed to tell you if someone is 'human' or not, but not whether something is spam or not. -- Matt Mullenweg
All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology. -- George Lucas
For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation. -- Kim Campbell
Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other. -- Angela Davis
I came down successfully through Picasso and Braque, down through Pollock, I guess, but I began to stop at Franz Kline and the Abstractionists. I like their design, brilliant design, marvelous color layers. But I don't find any human content there. I'm from an old school, and painting has to have human content for me. -- Irving Stone
Design is the first signal of human intention. -- William McDonough
Why would you design something if it didn't improve the human condition? -- Niels Diffrient
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost. -- Bjarne Stroustrup
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy. -- Novalis
Design needs to be plugged into human behavior. Design dissolves in behavior. -- Naoto Fukasawa
Great design is a multi-layered relationship between human life and its environment. -- Naoto Fukasawa
We must accept human error as inevitable - and design around that fact. -- Donald Berwick
The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have. -- Steve Jobs
Good design should reflect a sense of human history-some aspect of where we've come from. -- Hartmut Esslinger
To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats. -- Henry Spencer
Should not the role of design be to reconnect human beings with their space on their land? -- Dan Kiley
Good design is a Renaissance attitude that combines tech, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something. -- Paola Antonelli
The alleviation of human error, whether design or intrinsically human, continues to be the most important problem facing aerospace safety. -- Jerome F. Lederer
My wish is that we design the future of learning. We don't want to be spare parts for a great human computer. -- Sugata Mitra
A profound design process eventually makes the patron, the architect, and every occasional visitor in the building a slightly better human being. -- Juhani Pallasmaa
Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. -- Steve Jobs
Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations. -- George Nelson
Few people think about this or are aware of it. But there is nothing made by human beings that does not involve a design decision somewhere. -- Bill Moggridge
Design is the fundamental creative activity with which we direct our lives, and collectively, the earth's transformation from its original, natural state into our human-made world. -- Michael Shannon
No longer associated simply with objects and appearances, design is increasingly understood in a much wider sense as the human capacity to plan and produce desired outcomes. -- Bruce Mau
Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as well as a pervasive need in society. -- Mary Catherine Bateson

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