"Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour."

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Source : "Dieter Rams at home, 2004". Interview with Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. September 29, 2010.

Dieter Rams

“We borrow from nature the space upon which we build.”
“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.”

Source : "The Common School Journal and Educational Reformer" edited by William B. Fowle, 1852.
“Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.”
“Writers talk too much.”
“I believe for everyone who goes astray, someone will come to show the way.”

Source : Song: I Believe, Album: You Light Up My Life: Inspirational Songs
“You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.”
“I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.”
“Advertising always corrupts the goal of the search engine, which is to try to give you the most important stuff, not the stuff someone paid there to be there.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org

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