Gems from around the place...#57

“Who idolizes the plodding studiers of spreadsheets? Nobody.” - Rob Walker

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” - Steve Jobs

“Even the best are ineffective unless they can also lead.” - Jim Bolt

“The display is the computer.” - Jen-Hsun Huang

“The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.” - Edward Tufte

“Questions about whether design is necessary or affordable are quite beside the point: design is inevitable. The alternative to good design is bad design, not no design at all.” - Douglas Martin

“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.” - Herman Melville

“Nothing happens unless first a dream.” - Carl Sandburg

“Don't just tell customers you've changed; show them you've changed.” - Saabira Chaudhuri

“[Leonardo Da Vinci] combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.” - Ben Shneiderman

“Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.” - Paul Rand

“Wimbledon - A private members club that has a bit of a do in the summer...” - Anon but told to me by Ian Ritchie the CEO recently.

And finally, not so much a pithy insight but the more I read this explanation the more it inspires...

“The sound of vision: Vision comes to those who exercise themselves to see what they hear, as they listen, who learn to see what is said and who enter in the experience of simple perceptual connection with the wide open personal completion to the moment's happening. As one develops the maturity of full participation with the moment, so does the perceptual envisioning dexterity. From the normalization of envisioning into one's perceptual connection getting firmly established in the daily living, then comes the envisioning. The envisioning is the imagination's inner screen lighting up in context of where the envisioning grows. To envision is to become aware from soaking in the atmosphere. To envision is the focus coming in contact with the natural deployment grown from the whole envisioning atmosphere I soke in daily. The essence of vision is from the personal relatedness development in its whole simplicity of perceptual connection of the moment. The sign of a vision is confirmed when it gets communicated in the context that it addresses and that the focusing message lights up a healthy stimulation of the imagination screen and creativity from each listener's own personal perceptual relatedness. It is also recognized from the pure joy of effortlessly knowing beyond any possible argument... offered with love in faith and hope.” - Benoit Couture




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