January 2012
2 posts
November 2011
2 posts
“There are businesses that succeed by doing traditional things slightly better...”
– Alain de Botton, WIRED (via wearethedigitalkids)
July 2011
2 posts
“Norway’s Prime Minister is a liberal atheist, they have one of the best...”
– Matthew Trevithick, responding to this story, “Former Bush Official Places Blame For Oslo Attack On Norwegians For Not Being ‘Serious’ About Terrorism,” with a comment that wins the universe. (via cognitivedissonance)
April 2011
6 posts
“Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away that they were...”
– Live Each Day As If It Were Your Last
So true. read the whole article, it’s a goodie.
(thanks Bekah for sending to me!)
“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t...”
– Gilda Radner (via sitbackandream)
“We’re all faced throughout our lives with agonizing decisions, moral choices....”
– Professor Levy played by Martin S. Bergmann, a New York University clinical professor in psychology, in the movie Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), by Woody Allen.
(via SwissMiss)
“He saw that all the struggles of life were incessant, laborious, painful, that...”
– Jack Kerouac: The Town and the City, (1950) Thank you, theindecisivemoment. (via crashinglybeautiful)
March 2011
7 posts
“We’ve entered a new era of conspicuous web consumption, where people are...”
– ‘The Era of Conspicuous Web Consumption,’ Big Think (via somethingchanged)
WatchFilmmakers Sarah Klein and Tom Mason bring us Sub City New York, a visual feast that beautifully captures the moment when you emerge from the subway and find yourself on the brink of a new and often unexpected adventure.
The film is part of a larger series to be filmed in Paris, Moscow, London and Hong Kong - excitement!
@MeghanMcTavish, you will *love*. Seriously.
(via Brain Pickings)
February 2011
3 posts
January 2011
7 posts
“Much of what I know I’ve learned by asking questions. My conversational style is...”
– William Zinsser, “An Interesting Life”.” Thank you to the Quiet Bubble. (via crashinglybeautiful)
“Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away...”
– Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life.
“It is what the internet lures out of us – hubris, daydreams, avarice, obsessions...”
– Laura Miller on novels coming to terms with the internet. (via playingexclaiming)
December 2010
5 posts
“It’s a funny thing about coming home. Looks the same, smells the same, feels the...”
– Benjamin Button, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button (via movieoftheday, breathingvioletfog) (via jesuisperdu) (via wearethedigitalkids)
November 2010
9 posts
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source...”
– Albert Einstein (via nathanielstuart)
“A chief effect of the internet is to boost the already unhelpfully strong sense...”
– Alain de Botton (via heyamberrae)
“I have the sensation, as do my friends, that to function as a proficient human,...”
– “Sad as Hell” by Alice Gregory for n+1. (via langer)
“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
– Willa Carther (via nathanielstuart)
October 2010
20 posts
“In an age of avatars and digitally altered profile photos, endlessly falsified...”
– “Open Secrets: Literature as Gossip in the Digital Age” on The New Inquiry (via britticisms)
The Creative Phase.
The digital technology revolution was, from the day the transistor was invented in the late 40s until the early part of last decade, largely about engineering. It is still very much about engineering but I’ve been thinking for a while now that as this revolution matures, it is becoming more and more about creativity and less about engineering.
Why the distinction between engineering and...
