Quotes about Design

Everything that was created was made by God and for God. All the glories of the created world were designed to point to his glory. The universe is his, designed to function according to his purpose and plan. That includes you and me. We were not made to live independent, self-directed lives. We were not meant to exist according to our own little self-oriented plans, living for our own moments of glory. No, we were created to live for him.

If you want to make money at some point, remember this, because this is one of the reasons startups win. Big companies want to decrease the standard deviation of design outcomes because they want to avoid disasters. But when you damp oscillations, you lose the high points as well as the low. This is not a problem for big companies, because they don't win by making great products. Big companies win by sucking less than other big companies.

Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body's plumbing system. God designed an ostrich. If He didn't do it, He permitted a drunken angel to do it. Empirical facts can add significantly to the meaning of "being godlike".

You must make the tabernacle and design all its furnishings according to the pattern I show you.

Six branches are to extend from the sides of the lampstand—three on one side and three on the other.

There are to be three cups shaped like almond blossoms on the first branch, each with buds and petals, three on the next branch, and the same for all six branches that extend from the lampstand.

See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.

For the second side of the tabernacle, the north side, make twenty frames

So you are to set up the tabernacle according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.

All the posts around the courtyard shall have silver bands, silver hooks, and bronze bases.

It shall have two shoulder pieces attached at two of its corners, so it can be fastened.

Fashion gold filigree settings