Scale will get you strategy.
~ Nicholas Negroponte
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Category Archives: 1347 – Quote Unquote
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The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.
~ Dashiell Hammett
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A niche is created by the intersection of resource constraints— an abstract resource space consisting of a unique combination of resources that could permit a form to survive there. Forms thus either take advantage of a niche resource space or fail.
~ Howard E. Aldrich
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Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and define in a basic ‘taken for granted’ fashion an organization’s view of its self and its environment.
~ Edgar H. Schein
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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
~ Armand Jean du Plessis
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Computers are far better at formal computation and formal reasoning, but humans are far better mathematicians.
~ William Thurston
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In the context of health and ecology, things that grow unchecked are often considered parasitic or cancerous. Yet we inhabit a culture that privileges novelty and growth over the cyclical and the regenerative. Our very idea of productivity is premised on the idea of producing something new, whereas we do not tend to see maintenance and are as productive in the same way.
~ Jenny Odell
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Cubism is no different from any other school of painting. The same principles and the same elements are common to all. The fact that for a long time cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it, means nothing. I do not read English, and an English book is a blank to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist, and why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about?
~ Pablo Picasso
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Once upon a time, long before smartphones or even laptops were ubiquitous, the computer mouse was new, and it was thrilling. The 1984 Macintosh wasn’t the first machine to come with one, but it was the first to popularize the gizmo for ordinary people. Proper use of the mouse was not intuitive. Many people had a hard time moving and clicking at the same time, and “double-clicking” was a skill one had to learn. Still, anyone could put a hand on the thing, move it around on a table, and see the results on-screen: A little cursor moved along with you.
~ Ian Bogost via The Atlantic
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Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that’s what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
~ Diane Arbus
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