Redesign Quotes:

Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.

- William McDonough

source: William McDonough, Michael Braungart (2010). “Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things”, p.177, Macmillan

topic: Trying, Stop Trying, Be Good, Redesign

You might make a lot of money, but it's very hard to get out from under that rug. The more you can reinvent yourself, the better - and unfortunately TV is designed not to let you redesign yourself.

- Peter Berg

topic: Tvs, Might, Reinventing Yourself, Redesign

Part of the redesign of FEMA is that they have so many people on standby, whether it is a retired nurse or a doctor who will take time off to go exactly where they are needed.

- Ginny Brown-Waite

topic: Doctors, Nurse, People, Redesign, Time Off

I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.

- Cameron Mackintosh

topic: Glorious, Position, Redesign, Packages

Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic makeup, computer-genera ted robots will take over our world.

- Stephen Hawking

topic: Makeup, Our World, Dna, Redesign

If you dont like the way your life is going, redesign it. Redeem the years you lost. Restore your vision, revive your passion for living, and reclaim what was dormant inside of you. I cannot give you the dream but I can give you the tools to reach the dreams you have inside.

- T. D. Jakes

topic: Dream, Passion, Years, Revive, Dormant

Unless we redesign our civilization in numerous ways, all of the science in the world won't save us.

- William H. Calvin

source: William H. Calvin (2010). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.142, William H. Calvin

topic: Civilization, Way, Climate, Redesign

Art is a path on which we honour our world. Art may not be the only path, but it is a good path, even though at times a difficult one. As bearers of this honour, we artists do not need to simply render our world as we see it but as we might ourselves redesign it. As artists, one of our privileges is to invent.

- Robert Genn

topic: Art, Our World, Needs, Redesign

I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign.

- Nate Berkus

topic: Growing Up, Motivation, Passion, Decorators, Redesign

There is number of different efforts around the country are to try to redesign the math pathway and the courses that students have to take to make it more applicable to the real world.

- Anya Kamenetz

topic: Country, Real, Math, Redesign

Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth, because they unleash cascades of complementary innovations, like lightbulbs and, yes, factory redesign.

- Erik Brynjolfsson

topic: Technology, Innovation, Growth, Cascade, Steam Engines

Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.

- Jack Dangermond

topic: Loss, Our World, Cities, Congestion, Redesign

The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture.

- Jacque Fresco

topic: Humanity, Culture, Venus, Redesign

We are operating at an overall mechanical efficiency of only four percent... Therefore, we find that if we increase the overall mechanical efficiency to only twelve percent we can take care of everybody. That three-fold increase in the overall efficiency can only be accomplished by redesign.

- R. Buckminster Fuller

topic: Twelve, Three, Care, Redesign

Video games provide an easy lead-in to computer literacy. They can get you thinking like a video game designer and can even lead to designing since many games come with software to modify the game or redesign it.

- James Paul Gee

topic: Thinking, Playing Games, Design, Lead In, Computer Literacy

So I believe in singing to such an extent that if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing become a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.

- Brian Eno

topic: Educational, Believe, School, Daily Routines, Redesign

It [AI] would take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete and would be superseded.

- Stephen Hawking

topic: Would Be, Evolution, Programming, Redesign, Biological Evolution

Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It's bad business, and it's bad policy. But we act as if it can't be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.

- Melinda Gates

topic: Change, School, Tragic, Redesign, Bad Business

After your first job, is anyone asking you what your GPA was? No, they don't care. They ask you: Are you a good leader? Do people follow you? Do you have integrity? Are you innovative? Do you solve problems? Somebody's got to do that homework and redesign the educational system so that it can actually train people to be successful in life

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

topic: Jobs, Integrity, Educational, Gpa, Redesign

Wherever man exists, he finds the need to redesign, to recreate the world. A more beautiful world, purer, sweeter smelling and more colorful. A garden is probably the spot where the hopes for civilization are best captured. In fact, man defines himself by his garden. My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.

- Gary Snyder

topic: Beautiful, Grandmother, Men, Colorful, Beautiful World

We can remove poverty from the surface of the earth only if we can redesign our institutions - like the banking institutions, and other institutions; if we redesign our policies, if we look back on our concepts, so that we have a different idea of poor people.

- Muhammad Yunus

topic: Ideas, People, Different, Different Ideas, Redesign

The journey to a different future must begin by defining the problem differently than we have done until now. . The task is not to find substitutes for chemicals that disrupt hormones, attack the ozone layer, or cause still undiscovered problems, though it may be necessary to use replacements as a temporary measure. The task that confronts us over the next half century is one of redesign.

- Theo Colborn

topic: Inspiring, Journey, Ozone, Ozone Layer, Redesign

Rethinking the future: It is a profound challenge, at the end of an era of cheap oil and materials to rethink and redesign how we produce and consume; to reshape how we live and work, or even to imagine the jobs that will be needed for transition

- Ellen MacArthur

topic: Jobs, Future, Oil, Redesign, Rethinking

Unsolicited redesigns are terrific and fun and useful, and I hope designers never stop doing them. But as they do so, I also hope they remember it helps no one - least of all the author of the redesign - to assume the worst about the original source and the people who work hard to maintain and improve it, even though those efforts may seem imperfect from the outside.

- Khoi Vinh

topic: Fun, Hard Work, People, Redesign

War, poverty, corruption, hunger, misery, human suffering will not change in a monetary system. That is, there will be very little significant change. It’s going to take the redesign of our culture and values.

- Jacque Fresco

source: "Zeitgeist: Addendum". Documentary, History, War, www.imdb.com. 2008.

topic: War, Significant Change, Suffering, Human Suffering, Monetary System

You can't participate in agriculture or redesign of aircraft for making them safer if you know nothing about it. So, whenever a person says 'will I be participating in the new world?' Only in areas that you can participate it. Areas that you have competence in. I'm not talking about self confidence, I'm talking about the ability to solve problems. Electrical, chemical, technical. I don't know of any other kind of problem.

- Jacque Fresco

topic: Self Confidence, Talking, Agriculture, Redesign

To be young and aware is to know you’re being lied to; to know that a bright green future is possible; to know that we can reimagine the world, rebuild our cities, redesign our lives, retool our factories, distribute innovation and creativity and all live in a world that is not only better than the alternative, but much better than the world we have now.

- Alex Steffen

topic: Creativity, Cities, Innovation, Redesign

The aim of human life is to know thyself. Think for yourself. Question authority. Think with your friends. Create, create new realities. Philosophy is a team sport. Philosophy is the ultimate, the ultimate aphrodisiac pleasure. Learning how to operate your brain, learning how to operate your mind, learning how to redesign chaos

- Timothy Leary

topic: Sports, Philosophy, Team, Think For Yourself, Redesign

Religions are tough. Either they make no contentions which are subject to disproof or they quickly redesign doctrine after disproof. ... near the core of the religious experience is something remarkably resistant to rational inquiry.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Religious, Doctrine, Inquiry, Contention, Redesign

We have to redesign the finances of the Quebec state to preserve what counts: education, health and families.

- Philippe Couillard

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: Finance, Quebec, States, Redesign