“The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.”
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“The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena.”
“I'm opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I don't waver.”
“There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.”
“To be able to design for the plus-sized consumer, for me, that's just beyond. It's a dream.”
“I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.”
“In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.”
“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.”
“If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.”
“God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.”
“I've never had anyone define purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live according to original design.”
“I studied literature design and fashion design.”
“We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work and accordingly labour faithfully for him not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.”
“Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.”
“Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.”
“Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.”
“The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.”
“Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.”
“Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.”
“Design my own line? No, I just like the culture.”
“I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.”
“It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.”
“If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny.”
“I am always locked in my design studio.”