Bill Moggridge Quotes

If there's a simple, easy design principle that binds everything together, it's probably about starting with the people.

Bill Moggridge

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• There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Relationship
  • Child
  • Poverty

• I think there is some truth to the fact that yeah, okay, cool, obviously the more mainstream kind of easier-to-grasp-onto dance music has become popular, but that holds true with almost any genre. It wasn't like the Sex Pistols hit the radio. It was poppier versions of that is what hit. It's never, like, the true core stuff.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Truth
  • True

• It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.

  

  Mackenzie Rosman
  • Good
  • Important
  • Focus

• I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Learning
  • Design
  • Build

• Equality for women is progress for all.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Women
  • Progress
  • Equality

• I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting his family - because it's always tempting especially for young men - what would I do as a mother to stop him?

  

  Nadine Labaki
  • Men
  • Family
  • Mother

• I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • American
  • Think
  • You

• Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Change
  • Die
  • Old

• I was wired to be intense. I don't think that's ever going to change.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Think
  • Change
  • Ever

• Work done illegally outdoors or without permission feels like pure freedom to me. I understand how it can upset many in our society, but in the bigger picture, it is ultimately about freedom. We are living in a time where public space has become a commodity for corporations to control and dictate what is seen and heard.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Time
  • Work
  • Done

• We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Pleasure
  • Need
  • Animals

• For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • Why
  • Funny

• I have only had positive interactions in relation to my impressions of people, which I'm happy because I do them with love, and I hope that the people who I do them of really like them.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Happy
  • Hope

• I like to get real pretty.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Real
  • Pretty
  • Like

• The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • World
  • You
  • Feeling

• It was admitted by all her friends, and also by her enemies - who were in truth the more numerous and active body of the two - that Lizzie Greystock had done very well with herself.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Done
  • Truth
  • Friends

• As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown and harden, the snow will fall, but in the heart of the fan sprouts a sprig of green.

  

  John Thorn
  • Heart
  • Game
  • Reality

• Not many young women of my age have been lucky enough to have had a wonderful mentor in their life.

  

  Beeban Kidron
  • Life
  • Women
  • Age

• Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.

  

  Anthony de Mello

• A CEO of a multinational global company can't say what to do; you've got to plant the flag.

  

  Dara Khosrowshahi
  • Plant

• Before there was an Internet, before there was an A.O.L., the circulation of newspapers was going down.

  

  Donald E. Graham

• If there's a simple, easy design principle that binds everything together, it's probably about starting with the people.

  

  Bill Moggridge
  • People
  • Design
  • Binds