Frank Gehry (1929-2005, architect)
"Picasso could use everyone's paintings and transform them into his own. He was using ideas from all of his contemporaries." (Available Light, Interview with Julie Lazar, PBS, 2015)
Ada Louis Huxtable (1921-2013, architect)
"Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style." (The Tall Building Artistically Rediscovered, 1986)
Joichi Ito (1966-now, entrepreneur)
"Most creative work is a process of passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way." (AZQuotes.com)
Patrick Lencioni (1965-now, writer)
"Open, frank communication is the lynchpin to teamwork." (AZQuotes.com)
Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011, computer scientist)
"What we wanted to preserve was not just a good environment in which to do programming, but a system around which fellowship could form." (The Evolution of the Unix Time-Sharing System, 1980)
Ken Thompson (1943-now, computer scientist)
"I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read and write."(Quoted in Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson by Cooke, Urban, Hamilton, 1999)
Yohji Yamamoto (1943-now, fashion designer)
"Start copying what you love. Copy, copy, copy, copy. At the end of the copy will find your self." (AZQuotes.com)
