Friedrich August von Hayek Quotes
The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.
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For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.
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The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.
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I can't imagine working without and audience.
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There is some group of Americans who are really, really curious to understand how we ended up at this point, where every week it seems like you can turn on your TV and see some sort of abuse being heaped on black people.
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People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.
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Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
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Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment.
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I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
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You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
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Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school.
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I wanted to be a writer as a teen... so storytelling was my first love. In my late teens, design became an obsession as I realized that I could express myself through the medium. Much later, when I founded Fuseproject in 1999, our slogan became 'design brings stories to life.'
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Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
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A challenge always is good. Normal design does not come under the constraints of a small budget and time frame. But it has helped me to make quick and knowledgeable decisions.
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I have been wildly enthused about gaming since I was younger, and a career path I chose not to go down but did really consider was getting into programming and game design.
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Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair.
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I studied fine arts and architecture, but I decided to move into movie design because I grew up in a small town in the Marche region and spent a lot of time after school in the movie theater.
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Being design-led means designers take ideas from the abstract to the concrete, from potential to real value.
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I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.
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We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.
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There are some people who have helped to advance me and other girls, but the fashion industry is always behind popular culture. They think they understand the zeitgeist. They don't know anything about the zeitgeist.
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Living in Manchester was like living on the moon... wherever that might be.
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The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.
