“A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points.” – Alan Kay
Tag: art
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 – 05/17/22
“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
Weekly Design Links – 04/12/22
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
Weekly Design Links – 04/05/22
“We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a lovely picture, into which you can look deeper and deeper and get a more profound experience very time. It is far, far better to read one book six times, at intervals, than to read six several books.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Apocalypse
Weekly Design Links – 03/15/22
“If a man with a dog sits quietly enjoying music and smiling, his dog might sit down beside him and smile, too. But who knows whether the dog is having a comparable experience or whether the dog is simply happy that his master is happy.” – Oliver Sacks
Weekly Design Links – 03/08/22
“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.” ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own