Bran Ferren quotes
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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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“Failure is a necessary ingredient for success.”
-- Bran FerrenSource : "To create for the ages, let's combine art and engineering". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2014.
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“The idea of connecting all people to knowledge and each other is enduring”
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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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“Art and design are not luxuries, nor somehow incompatible with science and engineering,”
-- Bran FerrenSource : "To create for the ages, let's combine art and engineering". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2014.
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“What people mean by the word "technology" is the stuff that doesn't really work yet.”
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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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“I was attracted to things that combined art and science equally. I've always been equally interested in art design, science and engineering.”
-- Bran FerrenSource : "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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“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.”
-- Bran FerrenSource : "Conversations with Michael Eisner", www.nbcnews.com. March 28, 2006.
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“I personally use the web as an Intelligence Amplifier.”
-- Bran FerrenSource : "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.”
-- Bran FerrenSource : "A Conversation About The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly" moderated by Chee Pearlman, www.wired.com. January 01, 2001.
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