“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” – Benjamin Franklin
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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 – 05/17/22
“Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” – George Orwell
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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 – 04/26/22
“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.” ― Allen Saunders
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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
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Weekly Design Links – 03/29/22
“Criticizing is easy and fast. Creating is difficult and slow. The two hours you spent on a book or movie usually took two years to produce. Anyone can tear down someone else’s work. The true test of insight is whether you can help them improve it or build something of your own.” – Adam Grant
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Weekly Design Links – 03/22/22
“That’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.”
― Dave Grohl
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Weekly Design Links – 03/01/22
“Our true nationality is mankind.” ― H.G. Wells
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Weekly Design Links – 02/22/22
“Rice is great if you’re really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.”–Mitch Hedberg