Good design is as little as possible. Less, but better, because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity.
~ Dieter Rams
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Monthly Archives: March 2024
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Bounded rationality means that people make quite reasonable decisions based on the information they have. But they don’t have perfect information, especially about more distant parts of the system.
~ Donella Meadows
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Every age should be represented only by its own artists, that is to say, by the artist who have lived in it. I also maintain that painting is an essentially concrete art form and can exist only of the representation of both real and existing things.
~ Gustave Courbet
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Just breathing can be such a luxury sometimes.
~ Walter Kirn
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It is time that we steered by the stars, not by the lights of each passing ship.
~ Omar Bradley
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Cunning and deceit will every time serve a man better than force to rise from a base condition to great fortune.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
~ Che Guevara
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes. What more is there to say?
~ William Butler Yeats
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Every man has his personal devil waiting for him somewhere.
~ John le Carré
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Today, we tend to think of economic and racial egalitarianism as closely yoked causes. One hundred years ago, this was far from the case. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many of those Americans most skeptical of corporate power were also the most hostile to racial equality, while those Americans who most adamantly rejected economic reform hoped to mobilize racial minorities as allies.
~ David Frum via The Atlantic
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