Bran Ferren Quotes

#1. 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 Ferren

#2. A woman at the rear of the room raised her hand. I was focused on the argument now and made a minor social error, which I quickly corrected. "The fat woman-overweight woman-at the back?"

Graeme Simsion

#3. You have to be very flexible and understand as a director, especially as a writer/director, that you cannot hang onto stuff really hard. You have to be ready to accept those happy accidents and to anticipate that they are going to happen and capitalize on them.

David M. Evans

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

Bran Ferren

#5. 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.

Bran Ferren

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

Bran Ferren

#7. I see no occasion for that. You and the girls may go, or you may send them by themselves, which perhaps will be still better, for as you are as handsome as any of them, Mr. Bingley may like you the best of the party.

Jane Austen

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

Bran Ferren

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

Bran Ferren

#10. 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.

Bran Ferren

#11. 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 Ferren

#12. Failure is a necessary ingredient for success.

Bran Ferren

#13. It's true I'm more widely recognised now and get invited to take part in all sorts of events and projects but as a person, I haven't changed.

Roger Milla

#14. For most people, there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set. If a thing happens on television, we have every right to find it fascinating, whatever it is.

Don DeLillo

#15. 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.

Bran Ferren

#16. I was attracted to things that combined art and science equally. I've always been equally interested in art design, science and engineering.

Bran Ferren

#17. ALS does not affect cognitive process. Stephen Hawking, one of smartest people on the planet, has ALS. It rarely affects the eyes. It doesn't affect senses like hearing, taste and touch.

Steve Gleason

#18. You can't be too careful how you stir up a policeman.

P.G. Wodehouse

#19. I personally use the web as an Intelligence Amplifier

Bran Ferren