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If you don't have an end game of something delightful, you're just moving chess pieces around.
— William McDonough
We realized we don't have an invention, that's why we gave it away.
— William McDonough
Not everything needs to be recycled.
— William McDonough
Sustainability takes forever. And that's the point.
— William McDonough
If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage.
— William McDonough
We are all born artists ... Almost everything kids do is art.
— William McDonough
Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture,'
— William McDonough
Designing renders visible our hopes and dreams. It is the first signal of human intentions.
— William McDonough
Imagine walking into a grocery there is a jar sitting there with a lid on it saying it's not carbon. That is ridiculous. It's an empty jar.
— William McDonough
I think the job of an original designer is to inspire.
— William McDonough
You need that same creative force that exists in a building like Disney [Walt Disney Concert Hall] to actually tackle that most prosaic of problems.
— William McDonough
Art is about going a little nuts ... Kids do art for fun. It's playing.
— William McDonough
The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.
— William McDonough
It's going to sound strange probably. But I really like Frank Gehry's works.
— William McDonough
Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.
— William McDonough
In planetary terms, we're all downstream.
— William McDonough
If you continue to act like an artist as you get older, you'll increasingly feel pressure. People will question your actions.
— William McDonough
In the end, the question is not, how do we use nature to serve our interests? It's how can we use humans to serve nature's interest?'
— William McDonough
The surest way to heal an eco-system is to connect it to more of itself.
— William McDonough
The problem I have with carbon as a bad thing issue, is that people go out and say they want to be zero carbon. You see it everywhere.
— William McDonough
Designers are inherently optimistic people who try to make the world a better place
— William McDonough
If you don't like carbon, if you want to be zero carbon, then you might as well shoot yourself, dry up and blow away because you are carbon.
— William McDonough
You don't filter smokestacks or water. Instead, you put the filter in your head and design the problem out of existence.
— William McDonough
Design is inherently optimistic. That is its power.
— William McDonough
We prefer to talk about 100% renewable instead of zero carbon. When you say zero carbon, you are not positively defined.
— William McDonough
We get jealous not because we're evil, but because we have little artists pent up inside us.
— William McDonough
Honor commerce as the engine of change.
— William McDonough
The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.
— William McDonough
How do we love all the children of all species for all time?
— William McDonough
Design is the first signal of human intention.
— William McDonough