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“You can say that designing is quite easy; the difficulty lies in finding a new way to explore beauty”

Way Lying Easy Design Findings Difficulty New Ways

Author:Yohji Yamamoto

“Our design, not respecting arts, but philosophy, and our subject, not manual, but natural powers, we consider chiefly those things which relate to gravity, levity, elastic force, the resistance of fluids, and the like forces, whether attractive or impulsive; and therefore we offer this work as mathematical principles of philosophy; for all the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in this from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena.”

Source: Newton's Principia: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

“Design: holding conflicting ideas in your head without difficulty”

Ideas Design Difficulty Conflicting Ideas

Author:Danny Hillis

“Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.”

Easy Difficult Design Prove Performances Difficulty Designer Graphic Design Graphic Artist Graphic Designer Industrial Design Graphic Design Inspiration

Book:The History of Rasselas, Etc. [With a Life of Dr. Johnson.]

Source: The History of Rasselas, Etc. [With a Life of Dr. Johnson.]

“There is no one "root of all evil" in software development. Design is hard in many ways. People tend to underestimate the intellectual and practical difficulties involved in building a significant system involving software. It is not and will not be reduced to a simple mechanical "assembly line" process. Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.”

“Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent fees are so much wasted money. The flying machine of the future will not be born fully fledged and capable of a flight for 1,000 miles or so. Like everything else it must be evolved gradually. The first difficulty is to get a thing that will fly at all. When this is made, a full description should be published as an aid to others. Excellence of design and workmanship will always defy competition.”

“Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It has only a few things of a grandeur not fit for us.”

Life Lying Difficult Fate Design Inspire Fit Difficulty Simplicity Patterns Life Changing Complexity Grandeur Fate Love

Book:Prose and poetry

Source: Prose and poetry

“You have your own difficulties. We watch, with friendly confidence in your capacity to merge differences in the grand dream of Canadian design.”

Dream Differences Watches Design Capacity Difficulty Presidential Friendly

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964

“When a man gets it into his head to do something, and when he exclusively occupies himself in that design, he must succeed, whatever the difficulties. That man will become Grand Vizier or Pope.”

Men Design Succeed Difficulty Pope Seduction

Author:Giacomo Casanova

“Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.”

Men Design Difficulty Infinite Remains Secure Accomplished

Book:Voyages and Travels: Ancient and Modern

Source: Voyages and Travels: Ancient and Modern

“The general problem with ambitious systems is complexity. [...] it is important to emphasize the value of simplicity and elegance, for complexity has a way of compounding difficulties.”

Way Important Problem Values Design Difficulty Simplicity Complexity Software Ambitious Elegance Software Design Simplicity And Elegance

Author:Fernando J. Corbato