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Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad ra

Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently – the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs good tricks. – Daniel Dennett

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The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesnt need its brain anymore so it eats it! – Daniel Dennett

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The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it. – Daniel Dennett

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In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past. – Daniel Dennett

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As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design. – Gianfranco Ferre

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I try to look at design from a more conceptual standpoint. – Cynthia Rowley

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