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The sun doesn't always shine; the wind doesn't always blow. This is why, if we want to rely on renewables, we need intelligent systems that integrate and coordinate different sources of energy at scale so that when one is scarce or unavailable, the others can automatically compensate. Jens Martin Skibsted

Airships could be part of the answer to Africa's infrastructure woes - if the financial challenges are overcome. Jens Martin Skibsted

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Regardless of our political stance, we cannot afford to perpetuate the Western car-centric model. Jens Martin Skibsted

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Consumers do not want a perceived cheap car; they want a car to flaunt. A car is as much about status and identity as it is about transport. Jens Martin Skibsted

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We inadvertently keep oppressing Africans when we label them by an approximated color - and even when we confuse a specific socio-cultural group such as the Afro-Americans with Africans. Jens Martin Skibsted

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Looking at the numbers, the transatlantic slave trade matches the Holocaust in horror - maybe even without counting subsidiary effects like internal strife and deaths inflected on the continent, death during transport, death during ownership, collapse of African economies, and such. Jens Martin Skibsted

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The industrialized countries that came to dominate post-slavery have caused the climate to change. Jens Martin Skibsted

Change Countries Industrialized Climate Came Caused Dominate

Growth is not the end-all-goal of politics, but it is one of the most compelling deliverables. Jens Martin Skibsted

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From NASA putting a man on the moon to DARPA developing what later became the Internet, the U.S. government, through a host of different public agencies, has provided direct financing not only of basic research but also public venture capital; both Apple and Tesla have received direct public funding. Jens Martin Skibsted

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I went to Paris to learn and absorb some of the amazing ambience I was enamored with growing up in Kansas City. I didn't go there to start my own collection. But I never could get an internship, so finally, I was left with just doing my own show. Jeremy Scott

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We have to fight for everything we believe in. Jeremy Scott

Fight Believe Everything

I don't make clothes for the critics. Jeremy Scott

Clothes Critics Make

Designers have a reputation for setting the tone for what people - and especially women - are supposed to wear. How long their skirts should be, things like that. I have a different philosophy: put something out there with humour; let people see that and come around to it on their own. Jeremy Scott

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I've met people with my prints tattooed on them, my face tattooed on them - I have that commitment and love. Jeremy Scott

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I know that my image and my clothing and my output are very colorful and can be arresting and startling in some respects. That is the nature of my work, but I am a simple farm boy, and I am very calm by nature. Jeremy Scott

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I'm a populist. I'm the people's designer... It's important that there are price points that allow people in who maybe don't have the ability to have higher-ticket items - but they can still have something very emblematic of the collection. Jeremy Scott

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I like to think of my work and the way people approach it in the same way people approach a Lichtenstein painting. You can write a one-hundred-page dissertation about why he used comics. Or it could be like, 'This is cute!' Jeremy Scott

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