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Quote by Daniel Dennett
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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Design works if its authentic, inspired, and has a clear point of view. It cant be a collection of input. – Ron Johnson

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So if I design it and then go away, its still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me. – Marc Newson

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I have always had an interest in fashion and design and I appreciate style and timelessness within my footwear and accessories both on and off the court. – Maria Sharapova

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Whenever I design any variant, or when anybody sends me one, I always say if at all possible within the context of the game dont have two home supply centers touching each other. – Fred Davis

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If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things. – Confucius

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Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity. – Og Mandino

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Back in 2004, Kellie Overbey handed me her play Girl Talk to read. I fell in love with her brutally delicious humor and the fearlessly deft way in which she drew her characters. They jumped off the page and begged me to give them a space in which to stomp around. – Carrie Preston

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The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. – Antisthenes

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