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“My thesis [is] that in order to design a tool, we must make our best efforts to understand the larger social and physical context within which it is intended to function”

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Book:Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design

Source: Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design

“My vision of a 'new world order' foresees a United Nations with a revitalized peacekeeping function.”

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Author:George H. W. Bush

“Any first-order, substantive normative theory worth its salt will require attention to the mental states of agents in a variety of quite complex ways. But realism, being a view about the status of such normative theories, insists that the truth of any firstorder normative standard is not a function of what anyone happens to think of it.”

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Book:Moral Realism: A Defence

Source: Moral Realism: A Defence

“All appeals to Scripture are appeals to interpretations of Scripture. The only real question is: whose interpretation? People with differing interpretations of Scripture cannot set a Bible on a table and ask it to resolve their differences. In order for the Scripture to function as an authority, it must be read and interpreted by someone. According to "solo" Scriptura, that someone is each individual, so ultimately, there are as many final authorities as there are human interpreters.”

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Author:Keith Mathison

“A man-made thing that produces pleasure (and criticism) by somehow taping into the order of the universe is beautiful. Making beautiful things makes our lives worthwhile. My teacher, and one of the founders of the Pratt industrial design program, Rowena Reed Kostellow, said, "Pure, unadulterated beauty should be the goal of civilization." From a pragmatic point of view, for something to be beautiful, it has to work. In order to make this idea clearer I have combined the ideas of beauty and function into one word: Beautility.”

“To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.”

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Book:Precisions on the present state of architecture and city planning: with an American prologue, a Brazilian corollary followed by The temperature of Paris and The atmosphere of Moscow

Source: Precisions on the present state of architecture and city planning: with an American prologue, a Brazilian corollary followed by The temperature of Paris and The atmosphere of Moscow

“Design acknowledges change. Its meaning encompasses change in our times. To design is to 'create order and to function according to a plan.' The notion of change and design move along the same path.”

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Author:Sara Little Turnbull

“For, in order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his dependence on anything beside the State must be taken from him.”

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Book:The Undiscovered Self

Source: The Undiscovered Self