Famous Quotes

"Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently - the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs 'good tricks.'"

Daniel Dennett on Design

More quotes about Design

• "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."

  Steve Jobs on Design

• "You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality."

  Walt Disney on Design

• "The artist in me cries out for design."

  Robert Frost on Design

• "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery on Design

• "Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy."

  Erma Bombeck on Design

More quotes by Daniel Dennett

• "In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past."

• "The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it."

• "The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!"