Quotes
Ce que l'on conçoit bien s'énonce clairement, Et les mots pour le dire arrivent aisément.
“Whatever is well conceived is clearly said, And the words to say it flow with ease.”
- Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (Canto I, l. 153)
“True eloquence consists in saying all that should be, not all that could be said.”
- Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marsillac (Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims)
La inspiraciĂłn existe, pero tiene que encontrarte trabajando
“Inspiration exists, but it must find you at work” - Picasso
“We are what we pretend to be. So we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” - Kurt Vonnegut
“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” - Abraham Lincoln
“Equality, like all general concepts, has marginal areas where philosophic difficulties are encountered.”
“I think we ought to exercise one of the sovereign prerogatives of philosophers - that of laughter”
- (constitutional law scholar) Charles Black Jr.
“To pray means to be aware that I can be seen” - Tomas Halik (Night of the Confessor)
“I think the mirror should be tilted slightly upward when it's reflecting life — toward the cheerful, the tender, the compassionate, the brave, the funny, the encouraging, all those things — and not tilted down to the gutter part of the time, into the troubled vistas of conflict.” - Greer Garson
“Nobody asks to be born - this is the central joke of life. We’re born crying, the challenge is to die laughing. Not a resentful or mocking laugh, but laughter grounded in joy, surprise, love. Our (largely inherited) expectations are the setup, and reality is the punchline” - @visakanv
“You can't drive a parked car!” - @edbatista, via this wonderfully honest thread on pivoting
“The boys throw stones at frogs in jest, but the frogs die in earnest.” - (Cynic philosopher) Bion of Borysthenes
“When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.“ - Pablo Picasso
“The interesting thing about interactive media is that it allows the players to engage with a problem, conjure a solution, try out that solution, and then experience the results. Then they can go back to the thinking stage and start to plan out their next move. This process of trial and error builds the interactive world in their minds. This is the true canvas on which we design—not the screen. That’s something I always keep in mind when designing games.”
- Shigeru Miyamoto (New Yorker interview Dec 2020)
“Design is how it works” - Steve Jobs
“During the Vietnam War… every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high.” - Kurt Vonnegut
“Repetition doesn’t really exist. As far as your mind is concerned, nothing happens the same twice, even if in every technical sense, the thing is identical. Your perception is constantly shifting. It doesn’t stay in one place.” - Brian Eno
“Your work is a mosiac. Some tiles are grey. That's OK” - Conan O'Brien (on WTF podcast)
“The impeded stream is the one that sings” - Wendell Berry
“All rituals have a sacrifice. The default one is time” - Will Newsome
“We have been so desensitized by a hundred and fifty years of ceaselessly expanding technical prowess that we think nothing less complex and showy than a computer or a jet bomber deserves to be called 'technology' at all. As if linen were the same thing as flax — as if paper, ink, wheels, knives, clocks, chairs, aspirin pills, were natural objects, born with us like our teeth and fingers — as if steel saucepans with copper bottoms and fleece vests spun from recycled glass grew on trees, and we just picked them when they were ripe…” - Ursula K. LeGuin
“One line is given to the poet by God, the rest he has to discover for himself” - Paul Valéry
“The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.” - Stanley Kubrick