Quotes About System Design

#1. Conceptual integrity is the most important consideration in system design.

Fred Brooks

#2. System design is not considered in this type of testing. Tests are based on requirements and functionality.

Anonymous

#3. Everything at Apple can be best understood through the lens of designing. Whether it's designing the look and feel of the user experience, or the industrial design, or the system design, and even things like how the boards were laid out.

John Sculley

#4. Successful organizing forces you to look at the big picture, not one small section of the frame, so that the system you design will be complete.

Julie Morgenstern

#5. You can design a mortgage system that is different without a Fannie and Freddie, but there are principles you have to have, to have a good system.

Jamie Dimon

#6. By its very nature and design, Network Marketing is a strikingly Fair, Democratic, Socially Responsible system of generating wealth.

Robert Kiyosaki

#7. Often, we think that things are the way they are because of intelligent design - because somebody super-smart, or some group of academics, came up with the best system ever to do XYZ. Actually, things are often the way they are because of an accident of history.

Leila Janah

#8. It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.

T. S. Eliot

#9. I have never seen a game's graphics look so sharp and clean. The sound design for the game is also unique on the Xbox. The memory on this system allowed us to provide the user with 5.1 Dolby surround sound for home theatre owners.

Don Bluth

#10. We have to design a health delivery system by actually talking to people and asking, 'What would make this service better for you?' As soon as you start asking, you get a flood of answers.

Paul Farmer

#11. The general tendency is to over-design the second system, using all the ideas and frills that were cautiously sidetracked on the first one.

Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

#12. Intelligent design is consistent with any faith system I can think of, because most faith systems believe that there is a creator.

Lee Strobel

#13. Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a system disposed with order and design.

John Herschel

#14. By definition, design, and practice, capitalism is a system that concentrates economic power in the hands of the few to the exclusion of the many.

Anita Roddick

#15. In the future, in a saner system, we would design products not to wear out and break down; to last as long as possible, so that the responsibility of the service sector would not be overloaded.

Jacque Fresco

#16. The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation.

Donald Knuth

#17. Your own imagination as to the true ability of the permaculture design system, you need to trust the system and stick to main frame basics with profound and thorough thinking while trusting yourself.

Geoff Lawton

#18. The linear design of FFXIII had a great advantage in providing players with enough time to become familiarized with the new battle system and the unique world. But on the other hand, it led to players feeling like the majority of the game was a tutorial.

Motomu Toriyama

#19. The real bug here is that the design of the system even permits this class of bug. It is unconscionable that someone designing a critical piece of security infrastructure would design the system in such a way that it does not fail safe.

Jamie Zawinski

#20. A prototype is a representative model or simulation of the final system. Unlike requirements documents and wireframes, prototypes go further than show and tell and actually let you experience the design.

Todd Zaki Warfel

#21. Business culture operates differently in different cities around the world. But I don't think it's possible to design one system that incorporates all social norms for networking. Human beings are just too diverse.

Danah Boyd

#22. In the wake of the Supreme Court of Canada decision (Chaoulli-Zeliotis), the Canadian Medicare system is about to be redesigned. Physicians must not just sit at the table, but must position themselves at the head, where they can lead and direct the nature of that design.

Brian Day

#23. When the Grateful Dead needed a quality sound system to deliver our sonic payload, I learned electronics and speaker design.

Mickey Hart

#24. When Lytle was born, the Wright Brothers had not yet achieved a working design. When he died, Voyager 2 was exiting the solar system. What does one do with the coexistence of those details in a lifetime's view? It weighed on him.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

#25. This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

Isaac Newton

#26. If you understand the system you can design appropriate action.

Edward De Bono

#27. Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate.

Paul Rand

#28. Selsdon Man is designing a system of society for the ruthlessness and the pushing, the uncaring. His message to the rest is: you're out on your own.

Harold Wilson

#29. Excluding the God of providence in your life's configuration and design is like removing the thermostat from a thermodynamic system.

Ikechukwu Joseph

#30. Toshiaki learned that all living organisms were governed by their DNA. He was impressed by perfection of this system.Why did existence have the ability to design such a beautiful code? And how could such a simple structure account for endless diversity of life forms?

Hideaki Sena

#31. If you design a system to do something specific, don't be surprised if it does it. If you run an education system based on standardization and conformity that suppresses individuality, imagination, and creativity, don't be surprised it that's what it does.

Ken Robinson

#32. Intelligent design is a modest position theologically and philosophically. It attributes the complexity and diversity of life to intelligence, but does not identify that intelligence with the God of any religious faith or philosophical system.

William A. Dembski

#33. Each of these strategies-get a little better at it, design a support system, use one of your strongest themes to overwhelm your weakness, find a partner, and just stop doing it-can help you as you strive to build your life around your strengths.

Donald O. Clifton

#34. The mantra of any good security engineer is: 'Security is a not a product, but a process.' It's more than designing strong cryptography into a system; it's designing the entire system such that all security measures, including cryptography, work together.

Bruce Schneier

#35. Down there between our legs, it's like an entertainment complex in the middle of a sewage system. Who designed that?

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#36. Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.

Norm Dicks

#37. In terms of their basic biochemical design ... no living system can be thought of as being primitive or ancestral with respect to any other system, nor is there the slightest empirical hint of an evolutionary sequence among all the incredibly diverse cells on earth.

Michael Denton

#38. Navigation is about wayfinding, you can't treat it as separate because many other things run parallel with it. If you look at studies in wayfinding, everything from exhibit design to building the cathedrals, it's about creating a complete system. It's about looking at the whole.

Clement Mok

#39. Design with skepticism, and you will achieve resilience. Ask, "What can system X do to hurt me?" and then design a way to dodge, duck, dip, dive, and dodge whatever wrench your supposed ally throws.

Michael T. Nygard

#40. In a biological system, the software builds its own hardware, but design is critical, and if you start with digital information, it has to be really accurate.

Craig Venter

#41. We must stop constantly fighting for human rights and equal justice in an unjust system, and start building a society where equal rights are an integral part of the design.

Jacque Fresco

#42. [Graphics] is a strict and simple system of signs, which anyone can learn to use and which leads to better understanding.

Jacques Bertin

#43. 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