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From the Ted Talk by John Maeda: My journey in design

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And so, I remember that my first major piece of software was on a direct copy of then-Aldus PageMaker. I made a dsoektp publishing stsyem way back when, and that was, kind of, my first step into figuring out how to — oh, these two sides are kind of fun to mix. And the problem when you're yuonegr — for all you students out there — is, your head gets kind of big really easy. And when I was making icons, I was, like, the icon master, and I was, like, yeah, I'm really good at this, you know. And then luckily, you know, I had the fnuotre of going to something called a library, and in the library I came upon this very book. I found this book. It's called, "Thoughts on Design," by a man naemd Paul Rand. It's a little slim volume; I'm not sure if you've seen this. It's a very nice little book. It's about this guy, Paul Rand, who was one of the greatest gairhpc diesegnrs, and also a great writer as well. And when I saw this man's work, I realized how bad I was at dgsein, or whatever I called it back then, and I sludndey had a kind of career goal, kind of in hot psuriut.

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And so, I remember that my first major piece of software was on a direct copy of then-Aldus PageMaker. I made a _______ publishing ______ way back when, and that was, kind of, my first step into figuring out how to — oh, these two sides are kind of fun to mix. And the problem when you're _______ — for all you students out there — is, your head gets kind of big really easy. And when I was making icons, I was, like, the icon master, and I was, like, yeah, I'm really good at this, you know. And then luckily, you know, I had the _______ of going to something called a library, and in the library I came upon this very book. I found this book. It's called, "Thoughts on Design," by a man _____ Paul Rand. It's a little slim volume; I'm not sure if you've seen this. It's a very nice little book. It's about this guy, Paul Rand, who was one of the greatest _______ _________, and also a great writer as well. And when I saw this man's work, I realized how bad I was at ______, or whatever I called it back then, and I ________ had a kind of career goal, kind of in hot _______.

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  1. younger
  2. pursuit
  3. desktop
  4. system
  5. suddenly
  6. design
  7. designers
  8. fortune
  9. named
  10. graphic

Original Text

And so, I remember that my first major piece of software was on a direct copy of then-Aldus PageMaker. I made a desktop publishing system way back when, and that was, kind of, my first step into figuring out how to — oh, these two sides are kind of fun to mix. And the problem when you're younger — for all you students out there — is, your head gets kind of big really easy. And when I was making icons, I was, like, the icon master, and I was, like, yeah, I'm really good at this, you know. And then luckily, you know, I had the fortune of going to something called a library, and in the library I came upon this very book. I found this book. It's called, "Thoughts on Design," by a man named Paul Rand. It's a little slim volume; I'm not sure if you've seen this. It's a very nice little book. It's about this guy, Paul Rand, who was one of the greatest graphic designers, and also a great writer as well. And when I saw this man's work, I realized how bad I was at design, or whatever I called it back then, and I suddenly had a kind of career goal, kind of in hot pursuit.

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