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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 – 05/03/22

“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.” ― Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means

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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

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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 – 03/15/22

“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

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Weekly Design Links – 02/15/22

“I suppose I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.” ― Tennessee Williams

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Weekly Design Links – 02/08/22

“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” ― Angela Y. Davis

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Weekly Design Links – 01/25/22

“There is no good singing, there is only present and absent.” ― Jeff Buckley