Bill Moggridge Quotes
Few people think about this or are aware of it. But there is nothing made by human beings that does not involve a design decision somewhere.
Quotes to Explore
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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A lasting architecture has to have roots.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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The hijab is a symbol that we wear on our heads, but I want people to know that it is my choice. I'm doing it because I want to do it. I wanted people to see that you could still be really cute and modest at the same time.
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
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If there was a time when 'The Ecologist' appeared not to be making a difference at all, not doing something useful, I wouldn't do 'The Ecologist,' but I think it is useful.
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Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.
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I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.
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Same-sex marriage is not the future.
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I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.
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I never intended to box forever, and always planned to move on to do other things.
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It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
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I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.
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We had already planned my wedding when my brother passed away in 2012. When you're grieving, you don't necessarily want to think about something like that, but my brother told me that he wanted me to, so we went ahead and did it.
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Will I support our president, whoever that might be? Absolutely. Did I vote for Donald Trump? Absolutely.
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Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
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We do not postpone the participation of the lower classes of our people in the profits of economic enterprise, and in other countries, they do postpone it. In the long run, I think our policy is better, and we stand by it.
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In the design of fission reactors man was not an innovator but an unwitting imitator of nature.
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People should never think that you have to be a very special person to help those who need you.
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Few people think about this or are aware of it. But there is nothing made by human beings that does not involve a design decision somewhere.
