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Quotes & Thinkers in Design
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"Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences. Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances."
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🇺🇸Buckminster Fuller
Philosophy
high-tech architecture
1895–1983
"Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts taken separately."
144 quotes
🇩🇪Karl Lagerfeld
Entertainment
1933–2019
"We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world."
7 quotes
🇮🇹James Rivière
Art
b. 1949
"I liked drawing and I had a passion for sculpture, after all goldsmithing is nothing but a miniature sculpture."
3 quotes
William Burges
Art
1827–1881
"The thirteenth century, in particular, was Burges’s chosen field, and he modelled his style of draughtsmanship on the famous sketchbook of in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris."
19 quotes
🇬🇧Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Art
Arts and Crafts movement
1868–1928
1 quotes
🇺🇸Barbara Kruger
Art
contemporary art
b. 1945
"I have no complaints, except for the world."
6 quotes
🇺🇸Donald Judd
Art
Minimalism
1928–1994
"Society is basically not interested in art. Art has a purpose of its own."
33 quotes
🇺🇸Vito Acconci
Art
contemporary art
1940–2017
2 quotes
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🇨🇦Patrick Lo
Education
b. 1969
"Once Steve Jobs goes away, which is probably not far away, then Apple will have to make a strategic decision on whether to open up the platform. Ultimately a closed system just can't go that far."
1 quotes
Notable Quotes
"Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment. . . . Humanity is in 'final exam' as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe"
— Buckminster Fuller, b. 1895View →
"The physical is inherently entropic, giving off energy in ever more disorderly ways. The metaphysical is antientropic, methodically marshalling energy. Life is antientropic. It is spontaneously inquisitive. It sorts out and endeavors to understand."
— Buckminster Fuller, b. 1895View →
"Politicians are always realistically maneuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers."
— Buckminster Fuller, b. 1895View →
"Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts taken separately."
— Buckminster Fuller, b. 1895View →
"Society is basically not interested in art. Art has a purpose of its own."
— Donald Judd, b. 1928View →