However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.
~ Robert N. Bellah
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As the technology matures, it becomes less and less relevant. The technology is taken for granted.
~ Donald Norman
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Good design is also an act of communication between the designer and the user, except that all the communication has to come about by the appearance of the device itself. The device must explain itself.
~ Donald Norman
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Academics get paid for being clever, not for being right.
~ Donald Norman
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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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Mathematics is primarily a tool for human thought.
~ William Thurston
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The perfect university provides sex for students, sports for alumni, and parking for faculty.
~ Clark Kerr
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One of the most distressing tasks of a university president is to pretend that the protest and outrage of each new generation of undergraduates is really fresh and meaningful. In fact, it is one of the most predictable controversies that we know. The participants go through a ritual of hackneyed complaints, almost as ancient as academe, while believing that what is said is radical and new.
~ Clark Kerr
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