Pranav Mistry Quotes

Our culture has kind of let the concept of the Renaissance Man die out. We don't really tell the kids that it's okay to bounce around the world, work odd jobs, and do six different things.

I really don't look at myself as just one thing. I'm kind of scattered and like to have my hands in a lot of different projects. It makes me who I am.

The scientist and the artist are both passionate about their exploration. What leads to my work is that I'm equally an artist and an engineer.

Being multi-disciplined is always a good thing.

If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.

I get bored doing one thing only. I've been very lucky to explore a lot of different artistic territory and I don't see why I won't continue on that path.

I like to erase lines between categories. Why separate cookbook writing from writing, healthy from good tasting? I want to be open to possibilities.

There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things.

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

One thing I liked about being in microscopy is it gets you out of your box constantly because there's such a diverse range of applications.

I think it's just my nature. I can't work on one thing. I have to work on many things.

I'm not somebody that just has one or two things in life that are laserlike focused.

I never wanted to do just one thing. There's even other things in comedy that I want to do. For me, it's always been that I have to have the vision first.

I see myself more like a novelist or a polygamist than a musician in terms of my output.

The Roots want to dip our toes into everything in the arts.

If technology is designed mostly by white males, who make up roughly half our population, we're missing out on the innovation, solutions, and creativity that a broader pool of talent can bring to the table.

I am an engineer, not just an architect, so I've always been motivated by technique or technology. As soon as technology moves just a little bit, it changes architecture.

Apple is a unique company in that the art and the science sit together very nicely. There's an appreciation for both sides of the brain.

F1's ability to problem-solve is second to none and our ability to make rapid prototype parts is again second to none.

I'm not just a designer; I'm not just a retailer. I'm not just a street style person, whatever that is. I can instead do a little bit of everything.

The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new technologies.

Eventually, this is how I would like to be remembered at the end of my career: He was never the best in anything he did - comedy, acting, filmmaking, writing, etc. But nobody was better at doing different things at the same time than he was.

It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.

Of course there is a lot of fluidity now between art, architecture and fashion - a lot more cross-pollination in the disciplines, but this isn't about competition, it's about collaboration and what these practices and processes can contribute to one another.