"A is A. A thing is itself."
Any Rand, Atlas Shrugged p930
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The greater man
Is the man who kills an idea greater than the man who gave it birth?
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a designer’s childhood
should a designer be raised with tough love or in a nurturing environment?
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I love design!
Why do I love design?
I thought I wanted to create.
Creation is an act of love.
To love the act of creation means to love the act of love.
To be a designer means I love love.
I know this now & I want to feel sexy all the time. -
"Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be left waiting for us in our graves —or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth."
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged p.675
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.] 10 plays“Carol Of Benjamin The Bearded One” - Sufjan Stevens
This song kills me every time. After a minute long “Carol of the Bells” inspired overture, the song settles into two minutes of nonstop beauty. I don’t know exactly what he’s singing about, but for whatever reason the word “snowbank” seems to be full of emotion and the whole things is very evocative of childhood memories of Christmas time.
It’s been a while since I got the opportunity to enjoy sufan. I can’t wait for the deep of winter to come and listen to this song again. :)
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"if nobody is willing to take risks, then everything will be derivative."
Matias Duarte, The Verge, Episode 001
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"[One Laptop Per Child]’s Nicholas Negroponte, speaking at the Open Mobile summit today, detailed a new plan for distributing the OLPC project’s next device, the XO-3 tablet computer: they’re going to airdrop it on remote villages and then come back a year later to see how it worked."
If you ignore how goofy this is in actual practice, you may realize this is the perfect engineering and design constraint for approaching a new product.
(via dbreunig)
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i am having a very, very difficult time accepting that this may actually be happening.
(via nickoleptic)
this plan sounds awful. i hope i’ve got the wrong perspective on the actual situation.
(via nickoleptic)
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the problem with passing communication.
how can one man truly understands that the other man knows what he is talking about?
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white socks
So it came into my attention while in Germany that I was the only one during a party wearing white socks. My initial reaction was that it was european to prefer black socks. Last night in Cincinnati we all took off our shoes and again I was the only one wearing white socks.
My grandmother always bought me white socks, I thought they were the standard. I wonder how much an influence the fact my grandmother is japanese played into the decision to always purchase white socks. Is it always so hard to recognize the things you do and regard as normal when they are not in fact so universal?
Theme: Linear by Peter Vidani
