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  • Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful … be concerned with doing good work and make the right choices and protect your work. And if you build a good name, eventually, that name will be its own currency.

    — William S. Burroughs on building a good name, filed under well said, February 4th 2023
  • Spinning on turntable
    Vinyl’s warm sound fills the room
    Analog magic

    Vinyl’s crackle and pop
    A symphony of sound waves
    Forever in groove

    Vinyl disc spins slow
    Echoes of the past come alive
    Music timeless flows

    — Haikus from the ChatGPT AI about vinyl records, filed under well said, January 14th 2023
  • When you go out into the woods and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You appreciate the tree. The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying, ‘You’re too this, or I’m too this.’ That judging mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are.

    — Ram Dass on turning people into trees, filed under well said, January 12th 2023
  • You really can change the world if you care enough.

    — Marian Wright Edelman on change, filed under well said, December 29th 2022
  • Design is intelligence made visible.

    — Alina Wheeler on design, filed under well said, December 9th 2022
  • I don’t know what I’m doing. And if you don’t know what to do, there’s actually a chance of doing something new. As long as you know what you’re doing, nothing much of interest is going to happen.

    — The benefits of not knowing according to Philip Glass, filed under well said, December 8th 2022
  • The system will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling … their ideas, their version of history, their wars … their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We may be many and they be few … Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

    — Arundhati Roy on “The system”, filed under well said, December 2nd 2022
  • When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck.

    — Peter Funch on inventing, filed under well said, November 5th 2022
  • We build our computer systems the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.

    — Ellen Ullmann on computer systems, filed under well said, October 14th 2022
  • Let us read and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

    — Voltaire; Let us read and let us dance, filed under well said, September 26th 2022
  • What is good design? Product design is the total configuration of a product: its form, colour, material and construction. The product must serve its intended purpose efficiently.

    A designer who wants to achieve good design must not regard himself as an artist who, according to taste and aesthetics, is merely dressing up products with a last-minute garment.

    The designer must be the gestaltingenieur or creative engineer. They synthesise the completed product from the various elements that make up its design. Their work is largely rational, meaning that aesthetic decisions are justified by an understanding of the product’s purpose.

    — Dieter Rams on good design (from a speech in 1976), filed under well said, August 6th 2022
  • It’s so easy to just let people live, all you need to do is love yourself enough to not be threatened by other people’s joy.

    via Instagram

    — Adam J. Kurtz; Let People Live, filed under well said, August 1st 2022
  • If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

    — Haruki Murakami in Norwegian Wood, filed under well said, July 22nd 2022
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