John Hockenberry famous quotes

Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.
-- John Hockenberry

#Design #Different #Brilliance

In general, I think very few people have a sustained interest in news.
-- John Hockenberry

#Thinking #People #News

At a moment when distortions of Islam are what feed most Americans, Ibrahim Abdul-Matin has done something both practical and inspiring. He persuades us that the imperiled environment is both common struggle and common ground for people who share, it turns out, more than simply God.
-- John Hockenberry

#Struggle #People #Islam

Design [is] the emerging ethos formulating and then answering a very new question: What shall we do now, in the face of the chaos that we have created?
-- John Hockenberry

#Ethos #Design #Faces

In America access is always about architecture and never about human beings. Among Israelis and Palestinians, access was rarely about anything but people. While in the U.S. a wheelchair stands out as an explicitly separate experience from the mainstream, in the Israel and Arab worlds it is just another thing that can go wrong in a place where things go wrong all the time.
-- John Hockenberry

#Israel #America #People

The song is just the given. It's how you cover it that matters.
-- John Hockenberry

#Song #Matter #Given

An object imbued with intent — it has power, it's treasure, we're drawn to it. An object devoid of intent — it's random, it's imitative, it repels us. It's like a piece of junk mail to be thrown away.
-- John Hockenberry

#Junk #Pieces #Treasure

The media doesn't need a conscience; people need consciences.
-- John Hockenberry

#Media #People #Needs

An object imbued with intent — it has power, it's treasure, we're drawn to it. An object devoid of intent — it's random, it's imitative, it repels us. It's like a piece of junk mail to be thrown away.
-- John Hockenberry

#Junk #Pieces #Treasure

Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May ‘43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in ‘42 - even in my position. This aircraft didn’t have any priority in design or production.

No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.

Music is language itself. It should not have any barriers of caste, creed, language or anything. Music is one, only cultures are different. Music is the language of languages. It is the ultimate mother of languages.

I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.

In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes. I've had to do it before with stage roles, to get roles. I'm drawn to kind of darker, misfit things. I would like to, especially in film, play against type and do some heavier stuff. I'm intrigued by projects that deal with problematic people and things.

Be glad I don't have my gun because right now I'm considering the different ways I can get you to shut up. Let me scream and back off.

Reading a book by someone you respect allows some of their brilliance to rub off on you.

There are times, where I am sad for the public. I am sad, because they do not get to know the brilliance that is Sebastian Janikowski.