“Whether it is ‘art’ or not is not really part of the conversation,” he says. “The public are ahead of the media.”
—Jeremy Deller: ‘I’m more interested in ideas than money’ | Art and design | The Guardian
January 2012
“Euphemisms may be a species of lie, but some of them are white.”
—Phoney politeness and muddled messages — www.economist.com — Readability
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E. B. White was amused to learn from a farmer friend that many electrified fences don’t have any current running through them. The cows apparently learn to stay away from them, and after that you don’t need the current. “Rise up, cows!” he wrote, “Take your liberty while despots snore!”
If you’re a hacker who has thought of one day starting a startup, there are probably two things keeping you from doing it. One is that you don’t know anything about business. The other is that you’re afraid of competition. Neither of these fences have any current in them.
” —A List Apart: Articles: An Important Time for Design
“The products that take design seriously and incorporate it from the start are going to be the ones that connect with people in a way that really makes an impact in the world”
—A List Apart: Articles: An Important Time for Design
“The kinds of stuff we do in ‘making’ are paths to the future, not paths to sidelines.”
—Pentagon taps students to build robots, drones | California Watch
“My drawings have been described as pre-intentionalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.”
—James Thurber
“So I often tell people that the mid-century will be about “old people
in big cities who are afraid of the sky.” I think that’s a pretty
useful, common-sense, plausible assessment. You may not hear it said
much, but it’s how things are turning out.”
—The WELL: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2012
“A small, beautiful, modest, handcrafted society, living in harmony with its Eco-region, relentlessly parsimonious in its use of energy and resources , can’t learn enough about itself to survive.”
—Bruce Sterling, Shaping Things
“I wonder what’s down there, I’ll go and have a smell.”
—Smell-designing Sheffield
“Every meeting must have one clear decision maker. If there’s no decision maker — or no decision to be made — the meeting shouldn’t happen.
No more than 10 people should attend.
Every person should give input, otherwise they shouldn’t be there.
No decision should ever wait for a meeting. If a meeting absolutely has to happen before a decision should be made, then the meeting should be scheduled immediately.” —How Larry Page Changed Meetings At Google After Taking Over Last Spring
No more than 10 people should attend.
Every person should give input, otherwise they shouldn’t be there.
No decision should ever wait for a meeting. If a meeting absolutely has to happen before a decision should be made, then the meeting should be scheduled immediately.” —How Larry Page Changed Meetings At Google After Taking Over Last Spring
“Which of them would risk the chamber pot of failed hopes being emptied over their heads by calling for a national industrial strategy?”
—m.guardian.co.uk
“The everyday object is the monarch of all objects.”
—The Viridian Design Movement
“It’s not bad to own fine things that you like. What you need are things that you GENUINELY like. Things that you cherish, that enhance your existence in the world. The rest is dross.”
—The Viridian Design Movement
“I live on the Earth. The Earth is a planet. This fact is okay. I am living in truth.”
—The Viridian Design Movement
The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks. (Doren/Adler)
“4) Some people (they are wrong) say design is about solving problems. Obviously designers do solve problems, but then so do dentists. Design is about cultural invention. There are some people who want to reduce the domain of design to listable, knowable stuff, so it’s easy to talk about. Design is a glamorous, glittering world and this means they can engage without having to actually risk themselves on the outcome of their work. This is damaging. It turns design into something terrified of invention. Design is about risk. We all fear authentic public response to our work, but we have to be brave enough to overcome.”
—Kicker Studio: Six Questions from Kicker: Jack Schulze
“No one cares about what you think, unless you do what you think. No one cares what you do, unless you think about what you do. No one ever really cares what you say.”
—Kicker Studio: Six Questions from Kicker: Jack Schulze
“We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of meaning amid leagues of cacophony and incoherence, reading the history of the past and of the future, collecting our thoughts and collecting the thoughts of others, and every so often glimpsing mirrors, in which we may recognize creatures of the information.”
—Borges
And my year end notes, lessons learnt etc http://t.co/h1GGajzw
