Marcel Wanders Quotes

In tech, people want an object for what's inside it, what it does. You need to make a defensive design that people won't walk away from. A chair is aggressive - you want a customer to choose it from many others.

Marcel Wanders

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: designer
  • Nationality: dutch
  • Birth: July 2, 1963

Topics

WalkPeopleDesignChairYouChoose

The truth is that, to me, a likeable character is a character that is really flawed, so I don't know what people mean when they say 'likable.'

Jennifer Konner

CharacterTruthPeopleMeTruth Is

Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.

Robert Morgan

PoetryPeopleWritingAmericanSome

There are significant human rights abuses in China. In some areas, the situation is worse today than in the past. In other areas, there have been improvements. We will recognize the latter, and be critical of the former.

Max Baucus

TodayPastSituationWillHuman

The financial markets tend to be just a backdrop for a novel, for a heist or something that isn't necessarily integral to it. On the whole, I don't think the financial world has been well served by novels.

Robert Harris

WorldThinkFinancialSomethingWell

I just love to read, learn, and think through complex things.

Ann-Marie Campbell

LoveThinkLearnThroughComplex

The developing countries must be able to take a more active part in trade negotiations, through technical assistance and support from the developed countries.

Anna Lindh

SupportMoreActiveThroughTrade

One thing about open source is that even the failures contribute to the next thing that comes up. Unlike a company that could spend a million dollars in two years and fail and there's nothing really to show for it, if you spend a million dollars on open source, you probably have something amazing that other people can build on.

Matt Mullenweg

PeopleAmazingYouBuildNothingUp

Before the Internet became so powerful, I toured extensively. With the rise of the Internet, touring apparently has become less important.

John Sandford

InternetPowerfulRiseImportant

The idea of being in a television series is a wonderful one to be considered, but you want to make sure it's the right thing for you because if you are fortunate enough to have something go for a long term, you want to make sure that it's something that you really want to be spending a bulk of your time on.

Stephen Lang

TimeEnoughLongYouTelevisionGo

I grew up in a very patriarchal family. And I believe that I like being a woman. I act behaving like a woman.

Stacey Dash

FamilyWomanBelieveI BelieveUp

I've been reading about the idea of cyclical lives - it matches up to the idea of string theory and a multiverse. So I wanted to write a record about that instead of another song about broken hearts and drinking.

Sturgill Simpson

BrokenSongReadingWriteUpTheory

There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again.

Rudolf Bing

LifeNightDownManagerFirstOpera

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