“The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.”–Leonard Cohen
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Weekly Design Links – 08/16/22
“Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.” ― Robert Heinlein
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Weekly Design Links – 08/09/22
“Tea is, in fact, a marvelous drink. To those who spurn it on the grounds of insomnia, I say that it’s better to be deprived of sleep than of tea.” ― Natsume Sōseki, The Three-Cornered World
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Weekly Design Links – 07/19/22
“After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.” ― Kenneth Grahame, Wind in the Willows
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Weekly Design Links – 07/12/22
“We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We’re a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don’t really have an explanation for.” ― Malcolm Gladwell
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Weekly Design Links – 06/28/22
“Independence is happiness.” – Susan B. Anthony
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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
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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
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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
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Weekly Design Links – 05/03/22
“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.” ― Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means