February 2012
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A Dao of Web Design →
When a new medium borrows from an existing one, some of what it borrows makes sense, but much of the borrowing is thoughtless, “ritual”, and often constrains the new medium. Over time, the new medium develops its own conventions, throwing off existing conventions that don’t make sense.
— John Allsopp
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“Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good,...”
– Howard Aiken
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“In every work of genius, we recognize our once rejected thoughts.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“He who thinks great thoughts, often makes great errors”
– Martin Heidegger
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“I do not enlighten those who are not eager to learn, nor arouse those who are...”
– Confucius
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“Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.”
– Pablo Picasso
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“Moral of the story: the internet makes dumb people dumber and smart people...”
– The Internet is a Major Driver of the Growth of Cognitive Inequality | Mother Jones
“cognitive inequality”
(via new-aesthetic)
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“The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds...”
– Carl Ally
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“Success is on the far side of failure.”
– Thomas Watson Sr.
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“The slightest advantage in one being, at any age or during any season, over...”
– Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species
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“Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is...”
– Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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“Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.”
– Cicero
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“1. Stories provide low-cost, low-risk surrogate experience. They satisfy a need...”
– Denis Dutton, The Art Instinct
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“…human beings achieve pleasure by catering to cognitive preferences that...”
– Denis Dutton, The Art Instinct
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“In the computer, man has created not just an inanimate tool but an intellectual...”
– A. Michael Noll
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“People do not selfishly spread their genes; genes selfishly spread themselves....”
– Steven Pinker
/via Denis Dutton’s The Art Instinct
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“Our ancestors, male and female, were the ones who were chosen by each other.”
– Denis Dutton, The Art Instinct
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“Hardly any faculty is more important for the intellectual progress of man than...”
– Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man
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“A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which...”
– Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species
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“I can only meditate when I’m walking. When I stop, my mind ceases to...”
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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“We must travel in the direction of our fear.”
– John Berryman
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“No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If...”
– Epictetus
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“Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.”
– Theodore Levitt
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Henry Miller's 11 Commandments
Work on one thing at a time until finished.
Start no more new books, add no more new material to “Black Spring.”
Don’t be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.
Work according to Program and not according to mood. Stop at the appointed time!
When you can’t create you can work.
Cement a little every day, rather than add new fertilizers.
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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
– Aristotle
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“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”
– Rousseau
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“…the only way of overcoming this magical view of what “I” and consciousness are...”
– Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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“Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.”
– Sartre
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“Imagination begins with intuition, not intellect.”
– Paul Rand
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“Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
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“If people aren’t telling you that your idea is crazy, then it is likely not a...”
– Francis Ford Coppola
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“Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative...”
– Albert Einstein
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