"You cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people."

-- Dieter Rams

#People Quotes #Design Quotes #Made Quotes

“One of the best ways of becoming an effective parentâ€”or, for that matter, an effective human beingâ€”is to understand the perceptions of other people, to be able to â€œget into their world.”

Source : Jane Nelsen, Ed.D., Cheryl Erwin, Roslyn Ann Duffy (2007). “Positive Discipline: The First Three Years: From Infant to Toddler--Laying the Foundation for Raising a Capable, Confident Child”, p.44, Harmony
“Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.”
“We only have two hours to change people's lives.”
“The schematics are a little bit tricky, but once you get it down you're able to really program an entire show. Every song has a lot of different guitar sounds in it, so that's what it is.”
“Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.”
“I knew when the ball was going out (over the Green Monster). It was something I worked into the decoy, but it used to tick the pitchers off. Bill Monbouquette used to say, 'Can't you at least make it look like you can catch it?' Meanwhile, the ball would be on its way over the fence to a spot three-quarters of the way out to the railroad tracks.”
“Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it.”

Source : Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers
“This is where you and I are headed.... Look for us in history books and you'll find us in the margins. Look for us in legends and you might just find us celebrated”

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