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" Craft meets the machine in rapid fabrication. We can generate craft with the help of technology. "

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" There is a very beautiful expression in the Hebrew language that's borrowed from spoken Torah... 'All is predicted, and permission is given at any point to change anything.' I think I live by this idiom in the sense that there is always a goal; there is always something to look forward to in life and my creative search, and that goal is there. "

" It is only through hard work and awareness that we can truly own our identity. "

" I'm not a mother of children, but I'm a different type of mother where my approach to design is more in line with nature. It's less about dictating and more about editing and listening and allowing something to grow. So I nourish and let the material express what it wants to be. "

" I object to the hegemony of form in contemporary architecture. We have very advanced technological tools, but ultimately, we create buildings exactly like we used to before: We send the drawings to an engineer and let him struggle with figuring out how to build it. "

" All great cinema has the sense of the dynamic, the transitional, mixed with the mythical and the sense of ritual. "

" In many ways, I think I'm still forming my ideas about my own identity in this world. "

" Nature is a brilliant engineer and builder. It knows how to create seashells that are twice as strong as the most resistant ceramics human beings can manufacture, and it produces silk fibers five times stronger than steel. Nature also knows how to create multipurpose forms. "

" If you think about it, the printing press allowed everyone to print books - it democratised the printing of information. For the first time, we could all print. "

" The second-most abundant biopolymer on the planet is called chitin, and some 100 million tons of it are produced every year by organisms such as shrimps, crabs, scorpions, and butterflies. We thought if we could tune its properties, we could generate structures that are multifunctional out of a single part. "

" Gender is more of a continuum than we are willing to admit when we hit the restroom. "

" In the end, it's clear that the incorporation of synthetic biology in product and architectural design will enable the transition from designs that are inspired by nature to designs made with and by nature to, possibly, designing nature herself. "

" In nature, there is no separation between design, engineering, and fabrication; the bone does it all. "

" I appreciate good tailoring as much as good details of construction. "

" When I came to MIT, there were four rubrics: science, art, design, and technology. And as you entered your degree, whether it was a master's or a Ph.D., if you were a citizen in one domain, you were a traveler in the other. "

" Our facial skins are thin with large pores; our back skins are thicker with small pores. One acts mainly as filter, the other mainly as barrier. And yet, it's the same skin, no parts, no assemblies. It's a system that gradually varies its functionality by varying elasticity. "

" Prior to the Industrial Revolution, hand-production methods were abundant. Craft defined everything. The craftsman had an almost phenomenological knowledge of materials and intuited how to vary their properties according to their structural and environmental characteristics. "

" Choice is a form of compromise, no? So why choose if you can have both? "

" The 3D-printing technology has been developing at a very rapid pace. "

" The most beautiful products or the most elegant or seductive products, in my mind, are those that tell a story of a process. "

" Look at spiders. They use about eight different properties of silk for different functions. The spider is like a multimaterial 3D printer. "

" I don't think of fashion as fashion or biology as biology. "

" I grew up in a modernist house, in a modernist culture. There was a love for modernism everywhere - the furniture, the books, the food, even the cutlery. So I learned very early to appreciate the value of design and the value of architecture. "

" The world of design has been subjugated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production. "

" The future of design is a future where anything material in the environment - whether it's wearables, cars, buildings - can be designed with this variation of properties and relationship with the environment that can take part in the natural ecology. "

" I believe in the balance between dreaming and building. "

" We need to treat the planet as a system, and up until now, we've operated more as if the world were made of separate parts - this part is environment, this part is economy. But everything is connected. You can't fix global warming with a Ph.D. in thermodynamics! "

" I often ask myself, 'What would design be like if objects were made of a single part? Would we return to a better state of creation?' "

" One cannot separate the spider web's form from the way in which it originated. "

" I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning. "

" I am inspired by alchemy and all things continuous, uninterrupted, and effortlessly fused into wholes. "