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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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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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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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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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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You can go from creating the design on your iPad to making the object on your MakerBot.
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Nvidia's self-driving-car business grew out of a long-standing relationship with auto companies. Car guys used Nvidia chips for computer-aided design, then used Nvidia supercomputer chips to do crash simulations. When the car guys started thinking about autonomous vehicles, Nvidia leaped at the chance to help them solve the problem.
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Independent graphic novelists have already achieved good work in terms of design, but all these great minds are writing in English. There is a need for people to write in Hindi.
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The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are increasingly seen as not being neutral but rather as combatants by one side or the other.
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To me, charity often is just about giving, because you're supposed to, or because it's what you've always done - or it's about giving until it hurts.
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My mom and my stepdad are both therapists.
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The Pakistanis are very resilient people.
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Volition . . . takes place only when there are a number of conflicting systems of ideas, and depends on our having a complex field of consciousness.
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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.
