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“At our company, our Design and Construction Consulting Service Team not only helps eliminate the risks inherent in the construction process, they typically save our clients 5% - 10% on overall construction costs. They also help make sure projects come in on time.”

Helping Sports Process Company Risk Team Design Cost Projects Construction Inherent Clients Consulting

Author:Roger Staubach

“Human domination over nature is quite simply an illusion, a passing dream by a naive species. It is an illusion that has cost us much, ensnared us in our own designs, given us a few boasts to make about our courage and genius, but all the same it is an illusion.”

Humans Dream Given Design Genius Cost Illusion Species Passing Passings Domination Naive Boast

Book:Under western skies: nature and history in the American West

Source: Under western skies: nature and history in the American West

“Alberto Alessi had asked a dozen architects to design a sterling silver tea service - with a teapot, a coffee pot, sugar, creamer, a spoon, and a tray. Our brief was that it didn't matter if it didn't work and cost wasn't the issue. It was a promotional project, not a commercial enterprise, and was going to be showcased in museums. And the coffee and tea piazza, as mine was called, received a great response. It was wonderful to walk into the Whitney museum and see all these objects on the first floor.”

“The question of whether a device will come into being depends upon three things: first, whether there is a practical use for it that warrants its development and manufacturing costs; second, whether the laws of physics applying to the elements available for its design allow the attainment of the needed ranges, sensitivities, or the like; and third, whether the pertinent art of manufacture has advanced sufficiently to allow a useful embodiment to be built successfully.”

Source: MODERN ARMS AND FREE MEN: A DISCUSSION OF THE ROLE OF SCIENCE IN PRESERVING DEMOCRACY

“Features have a specification cost, a design cost, and a development cost. There is a testing cost and a reliability cost. ... Features have a documentation cost. Every feature adds pages to the manual increasing training costs.”

Design Development Cost Pages Training Add Features Testing Manuals Reliability Documentation Specifications

Author:Douglas Crockford

“Place yourself in the background; write in a way that comes naturally; work from a suitable design; write with nouns and verbs; do not overwrite; do not overstate; avoid the use of qualifiers; do not affect a breezy style; use orthodox spelling; do not explain too much; avoid fancy words; do not take shortcuts as the cost of clarity; prefer the standard to the offbeat; make sure the reader knows who is speaking; do not use dialect; revise and rewrite.”

Knows Way Writing Use Too Much Style Design Reader Cost Standards Backgrounds Clarity Fancy Orthodox Suitable Verbs Shortcuts Spelling Nouns Dialect Breezy Offbeat

Author:E. B. White

“The government can always rescue the markets or interfere with contract law whenever it deems convenient with little or no apparent cost. (Investors believe this now and, worse still, the government believes it as well. We are probably doomed to a lasting legacy of government tampering with financial markets and the economy, which is likely to create the mother of all moral hazards. The government is blissfully unaware of the wisdom of Friedrich Hayek: "The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.")”

“The need to be thoughtful about experiment design is particularly acute within large companies, since some of the behaviors, such as having small teams and tapping into low-cost resources to maximize flexibility, won't come naturally to many people inside huge companies.”

People Needs Company Team Design Huge Cost Behavior Lows Resources Experiments Thoughtful Flexibility Tapping Large Companies

Author:Scott D. Anthony

“Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.”

People Today Design Cost Buying Realistic Boots Skirts

Author:Vera Wang

“Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality of execution than commercial schemes - conditions typical of buildings for cultural institutions. Budgets are exceeded for many reasons, not all of them within an architect's control.”

Reason Quality Conditions Design Building Cost Demand Institutions Architecture Budgets Architect Execution Schemes Typical Technological Norm Uncommon

Author:Martin Filler

“Barefoot conducts his seminars on his houseboat in Sausalito. It costs a hundred dollars to find out why we are on this Earth. You also get a sandwich, but I wasn't hungry that day. John Lennon had just been killed and I think I know why we are on this Earth; it's to find out that what you love the most will be taken away from you, probably due to an error in high places rather than by design.”

Thinking Knows Earth Taken Design Cost Hundred Dollars Errors Dues Hungry Sandwiches What You Love Away From You Lennon Barefoot Seminars High Places

Book:Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

Source: Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

“But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: to see what might be, to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost.”

Should Believe Littles Ends Matter Lasts Design Mines Cost

Author:Orson Scott Card