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" I like to mostly wear very simple clothes. "

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

" At least since the Industrial Revolution, the world of design has been dominated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production. Assembly lines have dictated a world made of parts, framing the imagination of designers and architects who have been trained to think about their objects as assemblies of discrete parts with distinct functions. "

" 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. "

" Although I often find that the feminist rhetoric - not feminism - can come across as simple-minded, self-regarding, nuance-averse and reductive - biology to physiology, history to psychology, procreation to gynecology, and so on - I have come to realize that we should all be feminists. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" How can we reinterpret 3-D printing in a way that suggests a new design language? "

" For the same reason we have the Brad Pitts and the George Clooneys, it's just part of human nature to idolize stereotypes. "

" I am equally fascinated and awed by visiting an Alexander McQueen show as I am looking under a microscope. "

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

" 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. "

" Unlike a pressed or blown-glass part, which traditionally has smooth internal surface features, a printed part can have complex surface features on the inside as well as the outside. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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?' "

" Binaries aside, we are the products of our relationships with our identities - cities we have built, bodies we have embraced, kindred souls we've cherished, our memories, our dreams, the fears we hide, the pain we hold - identities that cannot be reduced to a collection of labels. "

" To wear a beautiful new garment is like wearing a new idea, and I see them as the same thing. Opening my closet is a form of meditation. I pick whatever I feel is right for the day. "

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

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

" Because glass is at once structural and transparent, it is relatively easy to consider the integration of structural and environmental building performance within a single integrated skin. "

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

" Could we design an all-glass building with internal channels and networks for airflow and water circulation? Can we surpass the great modern tradition of discrete formal and functional partitions and generate an all-in-one building skin? "

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

" I don't think I would have made for a good doctor. It was not meant to be, and it took me a long time to realize that. "