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• At first sight, the idea of any rules or principles being superimposed on the creative mind seems more likely to hinder than to help, but this is quite untrue in practice.
  disciplined thinking focuses inspiration rather than blinkers it....
• At first sight, the idea of any rules or principles being superimposed on the creative mind seems more likely to hinder than to help, but this is quite untrue in practice.
  Disciplined thinking focuses inspiration rather than blinkers it....
• Disciplined thinking focuses inspiration rather than constricts it.
• One of the cheapest ways to design something is not to design it at all. -- Gordon L. Glegg
• Many times an economical design with a predictable life is superior to an expensive design with an indefinite life.
  .. -- Gordon L. Glegg...
• Possibly the ultimate irony is that perfection is usually achieved by accident rather than by design.
• one of the things that tools can do is to help bad designers create ghastly designs much more quickly than they ever could in the past.
  -- Grady Booch, "Object Oriented Desig...
• evil: adj. As used by hackers, implies that some system, program, person, or institution is sufficiently maldesigned as to be not worth the bother of dealing with.
  Unlike the adjectives in the {cretinous}/{losing}/{brain-damaged} series, `evil' does not imply incompetence or bad design, but rather a set of goals or design criteria fatally incompatible with the speaker's....
• If it happens once, it's a bug. If it happens twice, it's a feature.
  If it happens more than twice, it's a design philosophy....