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I think the job of an original designer is to inspire. -- William McDonough
I've never had anyone define purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live according to original design. -- Josh McDowell
My mom was one of the original designers for Coach in the eighties, and she designed some classics, including the City Bag. It's the only bag I use! -- Jane Levy
The novelist screws up his courage in order to invest another two or three years in another attempt to float a boat of original design upon an invented ocean. -- Edward Hoagland
The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have. -- Tadao Ando
We would say homosexuality is not the original design for sexuality. Therefore, it's not good for human flourishing. We want people to do things that are good for human flourishing. But that's not what sends you to heaven or Hell. -- Timothy Keller
Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. It's like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level. -- Robert Moog
You know something has really stuck in Tim's head when he's drawn what the character looks like. Weird Girl and Elsa actually switched places, at one point. I may be mis-remembering it, but the original design for Weird Girl was actually Elsa, but then it became Winona Ryder's character, and the new Weird Girl was just fantastic with those giant wide eyes. -- John August
Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different. -- John Hockenberry
IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film. -- Douglas Trumbull
The original Mickey Mouse Club, established in the '30s, was designed to attract children to movie theaters. -- Annette Funicello
The emphasis and value on ideas and original thinking is an innate part of British culture, and in many ways, that describes the traditions of design. -- Jonathan Ive
Numerous are the posthumous museums and memorials devoted exclusively to one artist, architect or author and designed to preserve or artificially reconstruct the namesake's original working or living conditions. -- Hans-Ulrich Obrist
In its heyday, the car was an expression of technical flair and design genius: the original Mini, the Beetle, the 2CV, and the Fiat 500 were all, in their various ways, inspired incarnations of functionality. -- Martin Jacques
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering. -- Freeman Dyson
We've gone from a world in which Starbucks set a cutting-edge standard for mass-market design to a world in which Starbucks establishes the bare minimum. If your establishment can't come up with an original look, customers expect at least some sleek wood fixtures, nicely upholstered chairs, and faux-Murano glass pendant lights. -- Virginia Postrel
The original idea of blog publishing was that writer and reader would be on the same level. That it would be a conversation - not a lecture. People lost sight of that. We didn't. Kinja is designed to break down the walls of the ghettos. So that everybody - editor, writer, source, subject, expert, fan - can be a contributor. -- Nick Denton
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

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