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I'm not from a generation of kids that grew up on a Mac.

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Paula Scher
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 6
Designer
Graphic Designer
Painter
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Washington
District of Columbia
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All the little risks I took were sort of like all the apartments I had moved into: I was finding the right spot.
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You need to be able to ride past the technology by understanding what it can do, who you are, and where you want to take it. You don't want technology to lead you you want to lead it, but it's very hard to do that when you're in the middle of it.
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You can build an ordinary hot dog stand or you can build a spectacular one, and you can do it sometimes without that much difference in money - if somebody thinks about it.
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Beige is the color of indecision.
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I get to work on things I've never done before and I get better at it, and I can do things that are innovative. Which I've done in my fifties, and want to continue to do through my sixties.
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Great design is serious, not solemn
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I do different things. I'm a designer. I'm a painter.
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I think Apple is a wonderful example of spectacular marketing and I love having my iPod. There are the naysayers who say that nyah, nyah, it breaks and I think well, I don't like what Microsoft made...
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Design really can be anything.
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Be culturally literate, because if you don't have any understanding of the world you live in and the culture you live in, you're not going to express anything to anybody else.
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New Zealand looks like the future to me
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What makes me say wow continually changes. It changes based on what I know.
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If I get up every day with the optimism that I have the capacity for growth, then that’s success for me.
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When I don't know all the rules I'm just wild.
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My work is play. And I play when I design. I even looked it up in the dictionary, to make sure that I actually do that, and the definition of “play,” number one, was “engaging in a childlike activity or endeavor,” and number two was “gambling.” And I realize I do both when I’m designing.
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The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be
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Helvetica is the font of the Vietnam War.
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Marketing is not inherently bad. That's just dumb. That's said by somebody that isn't doing enough work.
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Technology is something that grows and changes, and what I need to do is find out what it can do so it can do what I want it to do. And I want it to do whatever I want it to do really fast. And it's fantastic.
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The job of the designer is to make things understandable, usable, accessible, enjoyable... important to a public, that involves the public.
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