Multidisciplinary Quotes

I like that I'm an engineer - it sets me apart from a lot of other artists.

Game development combines all this disparate art stuff I'd been doing into one single thing that I could use to say very specific stuff.

I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.

Obviously, I carved out a pretty successful path and career for myself. But I'm kind of fascinated with, for lack of a better term, Renaissance men. And women. People who do a lot of different things.

The term 'renaissance man' is always bandied about. I don't think that applies to me. You think about Leonardo da Vinci, and he was a painter and a physicist and an architect, and that is a true renaissance man.

In Dublin, we open The Dock, our new multidisciplinary innovation R&D and incubation hub where all elements of our innovation architecture come to life. The Dock is a launch pad for our more than 200 researchers to innovate with clients and acquisition partners with a particular focus on artificial intelligence.

Foreign policy is now a huge field. It isn't just people who are studying political science. There are so many aspects to it in terms of understanding hard science for people who are studying climate change, or people who are interested in health policy or food security, or people who care about education.

I'm a modern-day renaissance man.

I'm sure there are people who think I only do music, people who think I only do theater, and people who think I only do dramatic stuff. I do things that interest me.

I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.

I'm a liberal arts comedian and the definition of liberal arts is all spheres of human knowledge, coexisting, mixing and influencing each other.

No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, I wanted to be a marine biologist, an actress, a writer, an environmentalist, an activist.

When I land in a country and they ask for 'occupation,' I always just put 'artist.' I think that covers all of it.

I do not want to say I'm a product designer. I've been trying all my life to not be categorized, to learn something and then to forget about it.

There are not too many people who are polymathic these days.

I know I'm in a 'jack of all, master of none' situation, but I like it that way.

There is one thing that I have learned about Economic Development—that it has to do with a lot more than economics.

Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised by many things.

We need to inject humanism into our AI education and research by injecting all walks of life into the process.

I'm an actor. I'm a singer. And I dance. To be able to do all these things is amazing. And to have similar-minded people all around you, doing what you love, is even more amazing.

I'm not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork.

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 think of 'data science' as a flag that was planted at the intersection of several different disciplines that have not always existed in the same place. Statistics, computer science, domain expertise, and what I usually call 'hacking,' though I don't mean the 'evil' kind of hacking.

Most people have a concentration in particular areas; it might be politics, it might be science, it might be business, it might be sports. I care about all of those, and that's why I've chosen the formats I chose.