“Independence is happiness.” – Susan B. Anthony
Category: Creative Links
Weekly Design Links – 06/21/22
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” – Benjamin Franklin
Weekly Design Links – 06/14/22
“The greater the inequality in any society, the more perverse the use of experts will be. Because actual knowledge, actual expertise threatens those on the happy end of the inequality. The truth can be a weapon for anyone, so you can’t just let anyone have it.” – Michael Lewis
Weekly Design Links – 06/07/22
“A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points.” – Alan Kay
Weekly Design Links – 05/31/22
“We are living in a world in which nobody is free, in which hardly anybody is secure, in which it is almost impossible to be honest and to remain alive.” ― George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
Weekly Design Links – 05/24/22
“The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance” ― Carl Sagan
Weekly Design Links – 05/17/22
“Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” – George Orwell
Weekly Design Links – 05/10/22
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov
Weekly Design Links – 05/03/22
“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.” ― Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means
Weekly Design Links – 04/26/22
“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.” ― Allen Saunders