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Bran Ferren (born January 16, 1953), is an American technologist, artist, architectural designer, vehicle designer, engineer, lighting and sound designer, visual effects artist, scientist, lecturer, photographer, entrepreneur, and a prolific inventor. Ferren is the former President of Research and Development of Walt Disney Imagineering as well as founder of Associates & Ferren, an engineering and design firm acquired in 1993 by Disney.
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Technology is stuff that doesn’t work yet.
"Vibrant companies must put together five-year plans. But they must be willing to change these five-year plans every single year."
“The Net, I guarantee you, really is fire. I think it’s more important than the invention of movable type.”
Being a successful inventor, starts with being curious, and asking the right questions.
The Internet represents the greatest story telling technology since the development of language. It will be far more important than reading and writing as a purposeful tool. Everything that is enabled by story telling will be enabled by the Internet.
Great art isn't about decoration - it's a different language that can both touch our hearts, and open our minds.
Art and design are not luxuries, nor somehow incompatible with science and engineering.
In 250 years, reading and writing will have turned out to be a fad.
When the first alien spacecraft lands in Washington, I want the little green people to walk first into the National Gallery of Art. I want our art to explain who and what we are before our leaders do.
Trying to assess the true importance and function of the Internet now, is like asking the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk if they were aware of the potential of American Airlines AAdvantage miles.
Most products are ugly. The harsh reality is that in many of these markets, form follows funding. And that products go where the market takes them.
It's disgraceful and embarrassing that the highest technology in a typical inner city high school in this country is the metal detector the students pass through at the front door.
A ‘good 10 percent’ of American products comes out of big-idea organizations that don’t believe in talking to the customer. They’re run by passionate maniacs who make everybody's life miserable until they get what they want.
We need to love [children] and help them discover their passions. We need to encourage them to work hard and help them understand that failure is a necessary ingredient for success, as is perseverance.
[Visionaries] not only believed that the impossible can be done, but that it must be done.
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