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.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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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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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.
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If we look at the representatives of two superpowers - America and Britain - and look at their conduct and their language, we would notice that they are more motivated by war than their responsibility for peace.
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It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.
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There definitely will be flying cars, but whether there'll be flying cars for most people to use, it'll probably take a long time to straighten everything out, all the rules and hassles. It'll take a while to figure out how to keep people from crashing into each other.
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I figure if someone calls something a 'Draugr,' people can figure out that it's a monster or some sort of mythic creature, and if they want to know more, there's plenty of information out there about those mythic creatures.
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How can I trust a bank to keep my money safe when it has dozens of pens stolen every day?
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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.
