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I truly believe that we're about to enter a second golden age of design. The first one was in the '50s and '60s, when designers like Raymond Loewy, Charles Eames, George Nelson and Dieter Rams were shepherds of the brands they were working with. They had influence over the products and how companies communicated and promoted themselves. Yves Behar
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Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal. Yves Behar
Pay Price Advertising Being Companies
For each project I do, I try to surprise myself, do the unexpected, and change my own status quo. From the One Laptop Per Child, the Herman Miller Sayl, or the latest Movado watch collection, there is always an insecurity about being able to do something important. I think each of those projects makes me feel like we have progressed. Yves Behar
Myself Me Change Try Insecurity Important Own Think Project Latest Projects Those Collection Status Status Quo Able Per About Something My Own Feel Like Makes Always Surprise Child Unexpected Being Quo Laptop Each Miller Watch
I am extraordinarily fascinated by the future of technology. We are in the early infancy of technology, and we have an opportunity to guide how technology develops and integrates into our lives. I talk a lot about the 'invisible interface,' or the idea that we can utilize technology without being absorbed into a screen. Yves Behar
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As a child, I first wanted to be a cook because my mother was such a good cook. Yves Rossy
Good Mother First Because Child Wanted Cook Good Cook
I was always pretty good at designing things. Yves Rossy
Good Pretty Pretty Good Always Things Designing
I was a pilot and flying hang gliders, paragliders, aerobatics airplanes, and then I discovered skydiving. Free fall. Free. With nothing around you, just a parachute on your back. And you go down. But you don't feel like you're going down. Total freedom. Yves Rossy
Freedom You Pilot Free Fall Nothing Down Back Flying Airplane Parachute Total Total Freedom Feel Like Around Go Discovered Hang Going Just Then Your Skydiving
Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.' Ueli Gegenschatz
You Example Power Big Nice I Can Spinning Feet For Example Force Call Course Surface Lot Moves Board Helicopter Use Skydiving Imagine
BASE jumping is skydiving from fixed objects, like buildings, antennae, bridges and earth - meaning mountains, cliffs. It's for sure - for me - it's the ultimate feeling of being in free fall, with all the visual references. Ueli Gegenschatz
Me Free Feeling Fall Mountains Earth Visual Objects Like Sure Buildings Cliffs Ultimate References Jumping Fixed Being Meaning Skydiving Bridges Base
When you go to the mountains, you really have to accept that there is always a risk. It's more dangerous than sitting at home watching TV. It's really sad. Ueli Steck
Sad Home You Dangerous Mountains TV Risk More Accept Always Go Than Sitting Really Watching Watching Tv
Once you start, if you're still afraid, don't do it. Either it's too hard, or you're not prepared. I've never done something when I was scared. Ueli Steck
You Too Once Scared Something Never Still Done Afraid Either Hard Prepared Start
Slow down and stay alive. Ueli Steck
Slow Down Alive Stay
Today, to find a challenge is really hard. In the Alps, everything is done. The new lines, almost all of them are finished. So to find a new challenge, it's all beginning to go to speed. Ueli Steck
Today Challenge Finished Beginning Speed Everything Find Almost Almost All New New Challenge Go Lines Done Them Really Hard
I don't have a death wish. On the contrary, I'm hanging onto my life like never before. Ueli Steck
Life Death My Life Wish Before On The Contrary Onto Never Like Contrary Hanging
I'm getting older, turning 40 this year. I had a period where I thought each expedition had to be something harder, something faster. But you can't go on like that, or you're going to die. Ueli Steck
You Getting Older Thought Year Older Faster Something Had Like Period Go Die Expedition Getting Going Where Turning Each Harder
It's really impressive what those like Messner and Walter Bonatti have done - they are a big part of the history of alpinism. Ueli Steck
History Big Those Part Like Impressive Big Part Done The History Of Really
Everybody has to choose his or her own way to climb a mountain. I don't give an opinion. But there needs to be enough room for others. Ueli Steck
Needs Own Enough Everybody Others Way Give Opinion Climb His Mountain Room Choose Her
Right now, I'm just focused on the 8,000-meter peaks. I don't know what's next. I don't think I will get tired of climbing. Ueli Steck
Tired Will Think Focused Know Climbing Get Just Next Now Peaks Right
I never expected to make a living from climbing, but it got to the point where I either had to get a job or start trying to make some real money from it. I didn't want to be 45 and a dirtbag. Ueli Steck
Money Job Living Some Point Never Had Make Got Real Climbing Real Money Expected Get Trying Where Want Either Start
Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract. Urs Fischer
You Build Add Other Later Way Draw Out Relief Carve Take Surface Up Flat Either Subtract Sculpture
What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that. Urs Fischer
Art World Never Stuff Understood Doing Art World Want Really Started
I think when tattoos are new and colorful, they look bad. But they look better the older and more bleached out they become. Urs Fischer
Better Become Older Think I Think Out Bad More Colorful New Look Tattoos
Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city. Urs Fischer
Life Old Long Beauty City Like Lot Decay
I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared. Ursula Andress
School Scared Never Because Acting Acting School
Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets. Ursula Andress
Buy Good You Try Frames Furniture Markets Collect Price Around Still Go Item Antique Get Shops Hobby Stores Paintings Even
When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something. Ursula Andress
I Am Country Looking Markets Something Always Am Go Antique Stores Flea Flea Markets
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