Design Patterns Quotes

#1. About half of all design patterns out there [ ... ] appear to be ways take perfectly natural design ideas and twist them to fit into someones static type system: recipes for pounding square pegs into round holes

Steve Yegge

#2. The best designers will use many design patterns that dovetail and intertwine to produce a greater whole.

Erich Gamma

#3. Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

Erich Gamma

#4. I always choose strong, direct backlighting that creates patterns of intricate abstract shadows. These shadows become strong design elements that lie across and touch other objects in the set up.

William C. Wright

#5. The definition of unity is oneness of purpose, not sameness of being. Like a quilt with various colors and patterns that have been blended together into a harmonious whole, a church in unity celebrates each person's unique place in the divine design.

Tony Evans

#6. Some things are better left in the past. And true things are destined to repeat themselves.

Suzanne Young

#7. I want to do dramas. I want to do comedies.

Johnny Knoxville

#8. Perceiving the world as well designed and thus the product of a designer, and even seeing divine providence in the daily affairs of life, may be the product of a brain adapted to finding patterns in nature. (38)

Michael Shermer

#9. Hitler will live forever; and maybe I will.

Mark Collett

#10. Design, whether it's on your body or in your home, is the same thing. It's mixing different colors, different textures, and unexpected patterns - elements that you wouldn't often put together in an interesting way.

Blake Lively

#11. Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning.

Richard Neal

#12. The architecture of change involves the design and construction of new patterns, or the reconceptualization of old ones, to make new, and hopefully more productive, actions possible.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#13. In London it's easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you.

Victoria Wood

#14. An opening and a receptiveness to design and pattern for its own sake seems to free the painting hand.

Robert Genn

#15. You may wish to be loving - you may even try with all your might - but your love will never be pure unless you are free from resentment. When we are free from resentment, loving is effortless. When we have to try hard to love, this is generally a sign that we are repressing our resentments ...

John Gray

#16. We would continue our commitments, president and cabinet, to the manner of negotiations as a strategic and political reality, through which we would pick up the fruits of our struggle and our people's sacrifice.

Mahmoud Abbas

#17. Poor lighting, absence of handrails, confusing patterns on the treads, risers that are unusually high or low, treads that are unusually wide or narrow, and landings that interrupt the rhythm of ascent or descent are the principal design faults that lead to accidents.

Bill Bryson

#18. Nature should be idealised not copied.

Owen Jones Classics

#19. I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf.

Kate Moss

#20. Symbols are oracular forms-mysterious patterns creating vortices in the substances of the invisible world.

Manly Hall

#21. Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.

Neil Gaiman

#22. ...I'm not saying simple code takes less time to write. You'd think it would since you end up with less total code, but a good solution isn't an accretion of code, it's a distillation of it.

Robert Nystrom

#23. A pattern is either right or wrong ... it is no stronger than its weakest point.

William Morris

#24. Reading is for pleasure; it's not another form of social competition. Leave those literary Joneses to it.

Heather Reyes

#25. I'm constantly thinking about design, shapes, patterns and colors, so I just want to be more of a blank canvas. But there is a comfort in knowing what you're going to wear, and that probably comes from Catholic school, where I wore a uniform for 10 years.

Prabal Gurung

#26. No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.

William Morris

#27. The fact that picking out china patterns was pretty gay didn't bother me, since we were picking them out to shoot them. Frank chose the design. Ivory white with solid black borders and real gold edging. Fucking expensive. He made me pay.

Nicole Castle