Marcel Duchamp I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. 2010-02-01T02:54:41Z http://thinkexist.com/quotation/i_have_forced_myself_to_contradict_myself_in/322849.html lrizoli lrizoli C.S. Lewis "[A child] does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods: the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted." 2010-01-17T04:18:10Z 9780842351157 205 http://books.google.ca/books?id=f3mR0-_rUJQC&pg=PA205&dq=%22does+not+despise+real+woods+because+he+has+read+of+enchanted+woods:+the+reading+makes+all+real+woods+a+little+enchanted.%22&cd=5#v=onepage&q=%22does%20not%20despise%20real%20woods%20because%20he% lrizoli lrizoli Maciej Ceglowski Our technical goals are to never lose data, be very fast, and favor boring and faded technologies where possible. A rule of thumb that has worked well for me is that if I'm excited to play around with something, it probably doesn't belong in production. 2010-01-12T19:06:33Z http://pinboard.in/blog/63/ ry ry Dr Seuss Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. 2009-12-28T18:20:21Z http://www.fluentin3months.com/sound-like-a-carioca/ ltcooper ltcooper periphera "You can judge the fitness of an interactive application by the ratio of suggested states to states that are actually achievable." 2009-12-10T21:46:19Z http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/10/the-boing-boing-20-p.html#comment-661115 lrizoli lrizoli John Maeda Amidst the attention given to the sciences as how they can lead to the cure of all diseases and daily problems of mankind, I believe that the biggest breakthrough will be the realization that the arts, which are conventionally considered ‘useless,’ will be recognized as the whole reason why we ever try to live longer or live more prosperously. 2009-12-07T16:25:46Z http://spacecollective.org/rene/4708/The-universe-will-fly-like-a-bird ry ry Umberto Eco The list is the origin of culture. It's part of the history of art and literature. What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. It also wants to create order -- not always, but often. And how, as a human being, does one face infinity? How does one attempt to grasp the incomprehensible? Through lists, through catalogs, through collections in museums and through encyclopedias and dictionaries. 2009-11-22T23:14:27Z http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,659577,00.html ry ry David Given I think that it's entirely plausible that if someone were to take the Algol-68 spec, redraft it in modern terminology (types instead of modes, names instead of variables, etc), update some of the odder areas such as transput, give it a catchy Web-2.0 name and produce a decent compiler for it, then it would be heralded as the next great development in programming languages. Which is kind of depressing... 2009-11-17T15:46:26Z http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2009-11/msg00576.html LKRaider LKRaider David Denby When a director exploits our hardwired responses to pathos, he fails, so to speak, a test of honor. 2009-11-13T22:26:25Z http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/08/04/030804crci_cinema#ixzz0WmUGEjPq lrizoli lrizoli Luc Tuymans It’s like I don’t know what I’m doing but I know how to do it, and it’s very strange. 2009-10-30T19:06:30Z http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/artworld/2009/10/12/091012craw_artworld_schjeldahl ry ry Antoine de Saint Exupéry Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. 2009-10-29T14:05:15Z http://inglorio.us/2009/04/08/so-the-best-ui-is-no-ui/ lrizoli lrizoli These visual essays, together with animated stings and very short films, have become the primary modes of communication; objects are strung together rather than taken in isolation. There is no space for contemplation, just clicking, scrolling and flicking. This leaves the solitary object somewhat adrift, only embodying meaning when it is juxtaposed or collated or slotted into a larger collection. Although a glance at any tumblr or curated weblog might suggest otherwise, the 'thing' is in danger of imminent extinction. 2009-10-20T11:00:31Z http://www.thingsmagazine.net/2009/10/death-of-object.htm ry ry