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

- 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

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.…

- Bran Ferren

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

- 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

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

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 t…

- 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, a…

- Bran Ferren