Bran Ferren Quotes
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I was attracted to things that combined art and science equally. I've always been equally interested in art design, science and engineering.
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In 250 years, reading and writing will have turned out to be a fad.
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Failure is a necessary ingredient for success.
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The Pantheon was the first church I'd ever seen that had an open view to God.
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Visionaries not only believe that the impossible can be done, but that it must be done.
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I personally use the web as an Intelligence Amplifier.
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My mother's an artist. My father was an artist and so I assumed that was normal growing up in art and the art world and spending our time around the world seeing art, experiencing things. It was great.
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Art and design are not luxuries, nor somehow incompatible with science and engineering.
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Technology is stuff that doesn’t work yet.
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What people mean by the word "technology" is the stuff that doesn't really work yet.
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One of the great enemies of design is when systems or objects become more complex than a person - or even a team of people - can keep in their heads. This is why software is generally beneath contempt.
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I've never seen a great military, political, or corporate leader who was not a great storyteller. Telling stories is a core competency in business, although it's one that we don't pay enough attention to.
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Most products are ugly. The harsh reality is that in many of these markets, form follows funding. And that products go where the market takes them.
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The problem with television isn't the number of horizontal scanning lines. It's the lines of dialogue spoken by the actors.