
Introduction
Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)
Introduction
Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)
The Emperor's Old Clothes
Context: There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult. It demands the same skill, devotion, insight, and even inspiration as the discovery of the simple physical laws which underlie the complex phenomena of nature.
“We must prove design before we can infer a designer.”
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Alternate: Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred. http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles/comment/shelleydeism.htm
The Necessity of Atheism (1811)
Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)
Source: Computer-Aided Design: A Statement of Objectives (1960), p. 2.
“It is not my design to drink or to sleep, but my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.”
Words that Cromwell spoke as he was dying and was offered a drink (3 September 1658)
“To my mind, design is closer to a sociological approach then a purely aesthetic creation.”
“Arte News”, The global method (2003), p. 113.
“It struck me that distant cities are designed precisely so you can know where you came from.”
Source: Let the Great World Spin