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On Design
“Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context — a chair in the room, a room Continue reading
George Orwell on Politics and the English Language
“A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts …
Design Thinking: Once a Day, Deeply Observe the Ordinary.
Good design thinkers observe. Great design thinkers observe the ordinary. – Change By Design
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood…
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, a very loose English paraphrase of his…
‘The true alchemists do not change lead into gold…
…they change the world into words.’ –William H. Gass
Ray Bradbury: ‘Be your own self. Love what YOU love’
‘When asked in 1991 to describe an obstacle he had faced during his lifetime and the subsequent effect of his overcoming it, author Ray Bradbury replied to schoolteacher William Stanhope with the following letter. His inspiring response, along wit…
Beyond Language – Einstein on Creative Thought
‘The words of the language as they are originally spoken don’t seem to play any role at all in my mechanism of thought. The elements of my thought are certain signs, or more or less clear images, which in my case are of a visual and sometimes of a…
