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A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering. – Freeman Dyson

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The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise peoples hopes. – Freeman Dyson

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Future
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The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence. – Freeman Dyson

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I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design. – Yukihiro Matsumoto

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When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher. – David Coverdale

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Dubstep has everything for me. Rhythm, sound design, heartfelt emotion – all in one place. – James Blake

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Through the harsh design of fate, Florida was dealt the unfortunate circumstances of bearing the brunt of not one but two hurricanes, and it appears more dark clouds are poised to visit the Sunshine State. – Ginny Brown-Waite

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