Bran Ferren famous quotes

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

#Team #People #Design

Failure is a necessary ingredient for success.
-- Bran Ferren

#Ingredients

The idea of connecting all people to knowledge and each other is enduring
-- Bran Ferren

#Ideas #People #Endure

The Pantheon was the first church I'd ever seen that had an open view to God
-- Bran Ferren

#Views #Church #Firsts

Visionaries not only believe that the impossible can be done, but that it must be done.
-- Bran Ferren

#Believe #Visionaries #Done

Art and design are not luxuries, nor somehow incompatible with science and engineering,
-- Bran Ferren

#Art #Engineering #Luxury

What people mean by the word "technology" is the stuff that doesn't really work yet.
-- Bran Ferren

#Mean #Technology #People

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

#Military #Leader #Political

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

#Art #Engineering #Design

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

#Country #School #Technology

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

#Mother #Art #Growing Up

I personally use the web as an Intelligence Amplifier.
-- Bran Ferren

#Use #Amplifiers

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

#Reality #Ugly #Harsh