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

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This is what I like about being a designer: You cant really get it until you see it. – Isaac Mizrahi

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Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist. – Terence

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I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design. – Len Wein

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Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesnt work. – Lance Armstrong

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