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Will Mcdonough Inspirational Quotes (70)

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We are not a green standard, we are a quality standard. We're different, we're multi dimensional.
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Designers are inherently optimistic people who try to make the world a better place
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I don't think the players play with the same desire they once did.
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We prefer to talk about 100% renewable instead of zero carbon. When you say zero carbon, you are not positively defined.
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Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture.'
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The problem carbon is that everyone thinks we have an energy problem, we don't. We have plenty of energy. We have a carbon problem. Carbon is a material, so we have a material problem, not an energy problem.
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To eliminate the concept of waste means to design things-products, packaging, and systems-from the very beginning on the understanding that waste does not exist.
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I think almost every newspaper in the United States has lost circulation due to the Internet. I also think the Internet will lead to a lot of plagiarism in journalism.
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So when you see a regulation against lead, because lead is a bad in a regulators mind, what does that mean? You are not telling us what is good, you are just tell us what you don't want, not what you do want.
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The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.
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I don't think there is enough educational programming, but unfortunately, television is built around advertising and those shows don't get the big ratings.
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Modern culture appears to have adopted a strategy of tragedy. If we come here and say, I didn't intend to cause global warning, it's not part of my plan, then we realize it's part of our defacto plan because it's the thing that's happening because we have no other plan.
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The future is electronic. It's radio, television and the Internet it's not really newspapers anymore.
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This idea that things are designed to go back to nature or industry for ever which is our articulation of these two metabolisms are actually a discovery not an invention.
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We realized we don't have an invention, that's why we gave it away.
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Design is inherently optimistic. That is its power.
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In planetary terms, we're all downstream.
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You don't filter smokestacks or water. Instead, you put the filter in your head and design the problem out of existence.
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We are proposing buildings that, like trees, are net energy exporters, produce more energy than they consume, accrue and store solar energy, and purify their own waste, water and release it slowly in a purer form.
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Designing renders visible our hopes and dreams. It is the first signal of human intentions.
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It would be nice if all that exuberance and abundance was connected to a deep ethos of planetary responsibility.
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How do we love all the children of all species for all time?
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