Information is the resolution of uncertainty.
~ Claude Shannon
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We experience the externalities of the attention economy in little drips, so we tend to describe them with words of mild bemusement like “annoying” or “distracting.” But this is a grave misreading of their nature. In the short term, distractions can keep us from doing the things we want to do. In the longer term, however, they can accumulate and keep us from living the lives we want to live.
~ Jenny Odell
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You can see the future best through peripheral vision.
~ Nicholas Negroponte
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I don’t like eloquence. If it isn’t effective enough to pierce your hide, it’s tiresome, and if it is effective enough, it muddles your thoughts.
~ Dashiell Hammett
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A key characteristic of the engineering culture is that the individual engineer’s commitment is to technical challenge rather than to a given company. There is no intrinsic loyalty to an employer as such. An employer is good only for providing the sandbox in which to play. If there is no challenge or if resources fail to be provided, the engineer will seek employment elsewhere.
~ Edgar H. Schein
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Deception is the knowledge of kings.
~ Armand Jean du Plessis
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Academics get paid for being clever, not for being right.
~ Donald Norman
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I never have taken a picture I’ve intended. They’re always better or worse.
~ Diane Arbus
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Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
~ George Will
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The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
~ Joan Didion