Bran Ferren Quotes

• What people mean by the word "technology" is the stuff that doesn't really work yet.

  Bran Ferren

  Mean, Technology, People

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• Visionaries not only believe that the impossible can be done, but that it must be done.

  Bran Ferren

  Believe, Visionaries, Done

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• Art and design are not luxuries, nor somehow incompatible with science and engineering.

  Bran Ferren

  Art, Engineering, Luxury

  "To create for the ages, let's combine art and engineering". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2014.

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• Failure is a necessary ingredient for success.

  Bran Ferren

  Ingredients

  "To create for the ages, let's combine art and engineering". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2014.

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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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  Military, Leader, Political

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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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  Art, Engineering, Design

  "Conversations with Michael Eisner", www.nbcnews.com. March 28, 2006.

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• It's disgraceful and embarrassing that the highest technology in a typical city high school in this country is the metal detector the students pass through at the front door.

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  Country, School, Technology

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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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  Views, Church, Firsts

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• The idea of connecting all people to knowledge and each other is enduring

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  Ideas, People, Endure

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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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  Mother, Art, Growing Up

  "Conversations with Michael Eisner", www.nbcnews.com. March 28, 2006.

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• I personally use the web as an Intelligence Amplifier.

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  Use, Amplifiers

  "EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES - Tomorrowland". Interview with Art Jahnke, www.cio.com.au. December 7, 1998.

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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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  Reality, Ugly, Harsh

  "A Conversation About The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly" moderated by Chee Pearlman, www.wired.com. January 01, 2001.

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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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  Team, People, Design

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