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[There is] a very general psychological theme, namely, that there will always be more things in a closed, than in an open, box. To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience
— Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
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In order to create this rhythm, the book must be designed and composed for the screen. A beautiful digital text can no more be arrived at by “converting” from a print design than a beautiful print book can be created by converting a Word file. The digital book will never come into its own so long as it is treated as a byproduct, unworthy of attention.
— Mandy Brown, The Form of the Book
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Also, most things are interesting to someone. There’s a few areas right now that no one has a particularly strong interest in. When things become neglected, they’re very quickly obvious. They don’t have a chance to fester. They just pop and are ugly and everybody has to look at it all the time and it’s annoying. At GitHub, those things are taken as a sign that we should consider hiring somebody who is interested in that thing. The more everyone is forced to take time away from what they would rather be doing to deal with the thing, the more pressure is created to find the person that’s going to love that thing and fix it for good.
— Ryan Tomayko, Comment on "Extreme agility"
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I think it’s a significant reason why people get less out of reading for the web: there’s always more… the beautiful thing about [magazine] issues is that they begin and end.
— David Cole, Metagames and Containers
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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.
— Maciej Ceglowski, Pinboard Blog: Technical Underpinnings
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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.
— John Maeda, http://spacecollective.org/rene/4708/The-universe-will-fly-like-a-bird
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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.
— Umberto Eco, SPIEGEL Interview
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It’s like I don’t know what I’m doing but I know how to do it, and it’s very strange.
— Luc Tuymans, A Luc Tuymans retrospective review : The New Yorker
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¶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.
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There’s a level of realism you can only achieve through the imaginary.
— Fumito Ueda, The Last Guardian [TGS 09: Trailer and Developer Diary HD]
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Kurzweil[’s] definition of innovation: if people like it or understand it, you didn’t do anything new.
— LBJeffries, 9:27 AM Sep 16th
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On the other, if I had to endure one more 10-speed silhouette printed on an America Apparel shirt, or a cute plush pseudo-monster, I was going to burn the damn thing down and demand half the fair go home and think about what they’d done.
— Jack Shedd, Big Contrarian → I’m a consumer.
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