If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
Henry David Thoreau

If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the jeans, the design of belts and boots, the haircut, the number and size of earrings.
Lance Loud

If we don't have accurate information, if we are not able to tell difficult truth one to another, we will never be able to effectively design a policy for Iraq.
Jack Reed

If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.
Guido van Rossum

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
Jim Rohn

In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
Samuel E. Morison

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
Charles Eames

In its report, the Cox Committee concludes that China is using stolen U.S. design information to speed up its deployment of a new nuclear missile force.
Charles Foster Bass

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.
Orville Wright

In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.
Donald Norman

In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project.
Douglas Wilson

Intelligent design itself does not have any content.
George Gilder

Internet safety begins at home and that is why my legislation would require the Federal Trade Commission to design and publish a unique website to serve as a clearinghouse and resource for parents, teachers and children for information on the dangers of surfing the Internet.
Mike Fitzpatrick

It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.
George Edmund Street

It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.
Junius

It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format.
Donald Norman

It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
Richard Steele

It is very important to lead the field and innovate in game design.
John Romero

It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this.
Michael Graves

It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus in on the band, but instead focused in on a theme.
Mike McCready