A number of important people and musicians talk about what sound means to them

"The Urban Design Group started with the approach that unless you involve the real estate developers, the city will continue to be built without any thought towards urban design whatsoever."

"As more and more digital fabrication machines have been created their overall cost has gone down dramatically. This is affecting our ability as designers to build more robots. "

"The critical thing about the design process is to identify your scarcest resource."

"Start with a vision of what you want and then, one by one, remove the technical obstacles until you have it. Start with a vision rather than a list of features."

Bob Stein, founder of the Institute for the Future of the Book, talks about working for Alan Kay, starting the Criterion Collection and Voyager on laserdisc, Hypercard e-books, and interactive CD-ROMs — essentially, the whole prehistory of where we are now with just about all digital media.

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