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To design is to plan, to order, to relate, and to control. In short, it opposes all means of disorder and accident.
Emil Ruder
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See entry about Emil Ruder in German Wikipedia
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Which rather begs the question ….. is that a good or a bad thing?
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Euan, I agree with your question :-)
I liked this quote because it really got me thinking.
On the whole for me, design which does not cater for serendipity is bad news.
Unless of course you’re an airline pilot trying to land a 747!