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Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we design new staircase steps every day in connection with all our houses, but a standardized step depends on the height of the buildings and on all kinds of things.

~Alvar Aalto

Topics: Buildings Connection Course Day Depends Design Every Every Day Height Houses Kinds Make New Oldest Once Our Staircase Standardization Standardized Step Steps Things Tried I Tried

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Market design is about understanding the details of markets in sufficient detail so that we can help fix them when they are broken.

~Alvin E. Roth

Topics: About Broken Design Detail Details Fix Help Market Markets Sufficient Them Understanding

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My opportunity to design school choice systems began in 2003 with a phone call from Jeremy Lack at the New York City Department of Education. He knew of my work on the medical match and wondered if similar efforts might help reorganize the dysfunctional, congested system then used to match students to high schools.

~Alvin E. Roth

Topics: Began Call Choice City Department Design Dysfunctional Education Efforts He Help High High Schools Jeremy Knew Lack Match Medical Might New New York New York City Opportunity Phone Phone Call School Schools Similar Students System Systems Then Used Wondered Work York

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Design shouldn't have to take a backseat to sustainability and making things responsibly.

~Amber Valletta

Topics: Design Making Responsibly Sustainability Take Things

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I went to art and design high school with a lot of people taking fashion. They would get up in the morning, and what they put on meant a lot to them.

~Amy Heckerling

Topics: Art Design Fashion Get High High School Lot Meant Morning People Put School Taking Them Up Would

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I attended Art & Design High School, and at one point, you had to write about what you wanted to be when you grew up. I wrote that I wanted to be a writer for 'Mad' magazine.

~Amy Heckerling

Topics: About Art Attended Design Grew Had High High School Mad Magazine Point School Up Wanted Write Writer Wrote You

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I design a lot of things that I wear onstage, but I'm always looking for unique stuff. I like creative things, so anything I can find at a secondhand costume shop to a Helmut Lang store, it doesn't matter - just unique stuff.

~Amy Lee

Topics: Always Anything Costume Creative Design Find Just Like Looking Lot Matter Onstage Secondhand Shop Store Stuff Things Unique Wear I Can

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So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan.

~Amy Waldman

Topics: American Anonymous Architect Born Competition Design His Khan Memorial Muslim Name Premise Raised Submission Virginia Won

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With Eric Rohmer - as with Mozart, Austen, James, and Proust - we need to remember that art is seldom about life, or not quite about life. Art is about discovery and design and reasoning with chaos.

~Andre Aciman

Topics: About Art Austen Chaos Design Discovery Eric James Life Mozart Need Quite Reasoning Remember Seldom

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While I was at community college, I studied industrial design because I thought maybe I'd be an automotive designer - I grew up in Detroit - and I also studied, geology because I was interested in science, a little bit.

~Andrew J. Feustel

Topics: Also Because Bit College Community Community College Design Designer Detroit Geology Grew Industrial Interested Little Little Bit Maybe Science Studied Thought Up While

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