Brenda Laurel famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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A design isn't finished until someone is using it.
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I think interactive television is doomed. It's a dead end.
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Culture and technology exist in a dynamic reciprocal relationship. Culture comprehends technology through the means of narratives or myths, and those narratives influence the future shape and purposes of technology. The culture-technology circuit is at the heart of cultural evolution.
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You don't have to please everyone-you have to please the user.
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I fervently believe in research as a necessity for good design, and I teach it that way.
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When artists and philosophers talk only amongst themselves, they ignore the potential of popular culture to become a variety of dialogues with and between everyday people. Its discourse may be productive of desire and pleasure, but popular culture is also a language in which people discuss politics, religion, ethics, and action.
-- Brenda Laurel
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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
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I used to have a wild night with three women until 5am., but I am getting older. In the Olympic village here, I will live it up with five women, but only until 3am.
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Tell the negative committee that meets inside your head to sit down and shut up.
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Delete, delete, delete and at the end find the ‘core aspect of the design’
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As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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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 designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow…
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No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.
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Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.
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Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass.
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