Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Bran Ferren

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American designer Bran Ferren.

Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Bran Ferren, 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, a multidisciplinary engineering and design firm acquired in 1993 by Disney. He is Chief Creative Officer of Applied Minds, which he co-founded in 2000 with Danny Hillis. Apple's "pinch-to-zoom" patent, which features prominently in its legal battle with Samsung, was invalidated by the US Patent and Trademark Office in 2013 based on a 2005 patent by Ferren and Hillis for multi-touch gestures.

American - Designer | Born: January 16, 1953

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The idea of connecting all people to knowledge and each other is enduring

Bran Ferren

It's disgraceful and embarrassing that the highest technology in a typical city high school in this country is the metal detector the students pass through at the front door.

Bran Ferren

I've never seen a great military, political, or corporate leader who was not a great storyteller. Telling stories is a core competency in business, although it's one that we don't pay enough attention to.

Bran Ferren

Failure is a necessary ingredient for success.

Bran Ferren

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.

Bran Ferren

I was attracted to things that combined art and science equally. I've always been equally interested in art design, science and engineering.

Bran Ferren

One of the great enemies of design is when systems or objects become more complex than a person - or even a team of people - can keep in their heads. This is why software is generally beneath contempt.

Bran Ferren

What people mean by the word "technology" is the stuff that doesn't really work yet.

Bran Ferren

Visionaries not only believe that the impossible can be done, but that it must be done.

Bran Ferren

My mother's an artist. My father was an artist and so I assumed that was normal growing up in art and the art world and spending our time around the world seeing art, experiencing things. It was great.

Bran Ferren

The Pantheon was the first church I'd ever seen that had an open view to God

Bran Ferren

I personally use the web as an Intelligence Amplifier.

Bran Ferren

Art and design are not luxuries, nor somehow incompatible with science and engineering.

Bran Ferren