Alan G. Lafley famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Because it is a national landmark, there is only one way to judge the Kennedy Center - against the established standard of progressive and innovative excellence in architectural design that this country is known and admired for internationally. Unfortunately, the Kennedy Center not only does not achieve this standard of innovative excellence; it also did not seek it. The architect opted for something ambiguously called 'timelessness' and produced meaninglessness. It is to the Washington manner born. Too bad, since there is so much of it.
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The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.
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Flow systems have two basic features (properties). There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows.
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Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.
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This is by far the most serious crisis civilisation has ever faced.
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I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.
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There is nothing truly serious in life. All words sound hollow when one listens to them carefully.
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Good design doesn't date.
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Good design is ubiquitous and forever.
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Aesthetic isn't simply about good design for good design's sake.
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