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设计
Design
Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.
科技让设计变得更加令人兴奋,色彩、墙纸、纹理、面料,这些都是没有科技就不可能创造出来的。
You know, I designed the Queen crest. I simply combined all the creatures that represent our star signs-and I don't even believe in astrology.
你知道,我设计了皇后王冠。我只是简单地把所有代表我们星座的生物组合起来——我甚至不相信占星术。
It is a building designed by committee: all they have been able to agree on is that it should be rectangular, have windows, and not fall over.
这是一个由委员会设计的建筑:他们所能达成的一致意见是,它应该是长方形的,有窗户,而且不能倒塌。
I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.
我不知道宇宙中是否有任何智能设计的证据,但我可以向你保证,成千上万的日常产品中没有。
A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
一个原本旨在支持社会上最贫困人口的体系,现在却把他们困在了原本应该得到缓解的状况之中。
I want people to understand that design is so much more than cute chairs that it is first and foremost everything that is around us in our life.
我想让人们明白,设计不仅仅是可爱的椅子,它是我们生活中最重要的东西。
I love that you can have the language between the two worlds of technology and fashion, because I don't think that many designers get to do that.
我很高兴你能在科技和时尚的两个世界中找到语言,因为我不认为很多设计师能做到这一点。
I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving.
我很惊讶地发现,那些不属于设计学科的人常常认为设计师所做的就是装饰。好的设计就是解决问题。
If you go back to the early days of aviation, the guys designing it built it, and then they got in it and flew it. I mean, who does that anymore?
如果你回到航空的早期,设计它的人建造了它,然后他们进入飞机并驾驶它。我是说,谁还会这么做?
A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.
一个伟大的建筑必须从不可测量开始,在设计时必须通过可测量的手段,最终必须是不可测量的。
Everything God does has purpose and intention behind that design. It is a master design, and every little thing has its proper place and function.
神所做的每一件事背后都有目的和意图。它是一个大师的设计,每一件小事都有它自己的位置和功能。
As a designer, you've always got to push yourself forward; you've always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That's what I do.
作为一名设计师,你总是要推动自己前进;你总是要跟上潮流,或者创造自己的潮流。我就是这么做的。
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Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
设计在艺术中,是对各种事物之间关系的认识,是各种元素在创作中的流动。你不能发明一个设计。你能认出它,在第四维度。就是你的血,你的骨头,你的眼睛。
You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success and endowed with the seeds of greatness.
你们是为成就而生,为成功而生,并被赋予伟大的种子。
Incidentally, the usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world.
顺便说一句,通常把震级标在我的名字上,并不能很好地说明古登堡博士在把震级扩大到适用于世界各地地震方面所起的巨大作用。
On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.
另一方面,和平作为一门科学、一门艺术的实现还处于起步阶段。但是,我们可以追溯它的成长,它的稳步进步,总有一天会有特定的个人被指定为这场运动的负责人和领导者。
His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
他的设计,严格地说,是可敬的;也就是说,通过婚姻剥夺一位女士的财产。
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
我们所观察的宇宙,如果其本质上没有设计、没有目的、没有恶、没有善,只有盲目、无情的冷漠,那么它就具有我们所期望的特性。