“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
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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
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 – 04/19/22
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.” ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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 – 03/29/22
“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
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