Bran Ferren Quotes

#1. 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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#2. I personally use the web as an Intelligence Amplifier

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#3. 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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#4. 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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#5. Failure is a necessary ingredient for success.

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#6. 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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#7. 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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#8. Visionaries not only believe that the impossible can be done, but that it must be done.

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#9. The idea of connecting all people to knowledge and each other is enduring

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#10. The Pantheon was the first church I'd ever seen that had an open view to God

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#11. 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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#12. Art and design are not luxuries, nor somehow incompatible with science and engineering,

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