February 2012
3 posts
“The fatal misconception behind brainstorming is that there is a particular...”
– Brainstorming Doesn’t Really Work : The New Yorker
“Nemeth’s experiment devised a way of escaping this trap. Pairs of subjects were...”
– Brainstorming Doesn’t Really Work : The New Yorker (via ninakix)
January 2012
8 posts
“Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources...”
– Stevenson and Sahlman (via 8226)
“As I think I remarked to you at the outset of the space program, you are...”
– Letters of Note: Dear Son
“In May of 1962, 37-year-old Malcolm Scott Carpenter became just the second American to orbit the Earth, as he piloted the Aurora 7 into space. On the eve of this historic journey, his father, Marion, proudly wrote him the following wonderful letter. “
(via pieratt)
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“I don’t believe anything really revolutionary has ever been invented by...”
– Steve Wozniack, Brain Pickings (via nevver)
“Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in...”
– (via thefollowingisforreferenceonly)
“The biggest barrier to an artist is self-confidence. The artist always battles...”
– Francis Ford Coppola (via brycedotvc)
“What Cezanne did with apples, Picasso with guitars, Leger with machines,...”
– Paul Rand (via raindog)
“…don’t try to control or make safe the fumbling, panicky, glorious adventure of...”
– Bill Coyne (via armblr)
December 2011
9 posts
“When Miranda July tried to explain why she and Brownstein had stayed friends...”
– Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen in “Portlandia” : The New Yorker
“…the emphasis on futurity misses an essential truth about fiction writers:...”
– How Old Can a ‘Young Writer’ Be? - NYTimes.com
“Reading this at the age of 40, I began to picture myself as Wile E. Coyote still...”
– At What Age Do Photographers Do Their Most Influential Work? « LITTLE BROWN MUSHROOM BLOG
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via girlinlondon)
“We believe in publishing good ideas and polished prose. We edit everything. We...”
– The Bygone Bureau
(via incorrigiblerobot)
November 2011
11 posts
“You tend to get told that the world is the way it is, but life can be much...”
– Steve Jobs in PBS’ “One Last Thing” (via lilzet)
How to Work, the Jobsism Tumblog
“We need to think smaller, not bigger, and with more attention to craft of...”
– Heart of Darkness: A Mild Polemic, by Jon Kolko - Core77 (via endashemdash)
2 tags
“You know, one of the things that really hurt Apple was after I left John Sculley...”
– Steve Jobs: The parable of the stones - Apple 2.0 - Fortune Tech (via ninakix)
“When we started the studio, we always looked to the first wave of modern design...”
– ROLU | 01 Magazine
“I want things to be a certain way; my way. It’s a selfish and arrogant belief...”
– Andy Beach | 01 Magazine
“How could you? I won’t believe it. Stop it now. Please stop it now. Oh...”
– Dave Eggers | The Guardian
“Maybe I got this idea from the autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, who was...”
– Interviews: Cass McCombs | Pitchfork
“Other writers and editors took this same mild umbrage—sometimes we would...”
– Daily Routines: Brendan Gill
Everyone needs a person like this in their life somewhere. It’s also a worthy goal to try to be this person for others.
“The process of returning home revealed quite a lot about Le Corbusier’s...”
– Daily Routines: Le Corbusier
“So I work three or four hours in the morning, and it’s not all covering...”
– Daily Routines: John Updike
“My usual method, though, is to spend the mornings turning over the text in my...”
– Daily Routines: James Thurber
October 2011
4 posts
“That experience reminded us that we shouldn’t spend too much time premeditating...”
– Teach Design: The Importance of Failure - Design - GOOD
Rob Stokes
(via 60gritbeard)
“Death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is...”
– Steven Paul Jobs (via liutaohan)
2 tags
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be...”
– Steve Jobs (via joshscherman)
1 tag
“One of the best pieces of advice I ever got, back when I was 23 and newly out of...”
– John Lilly (via parislemon)
September 2011
6 posts
1 tag
“One of the best pieces of advice I ever got, back when I was 23 and newly out of...”
– John Lilly (via parislemon)
“Our “corporate philosophy” has an excellent summary in the following passage...”
– About Ludicorp Research & Development Ltd.
4 tags
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will...”
– Carl Jung (via styleandsubstance)
August 2011
5 posts
“His design decisions, Mr. Jobs explained, were shaped by his understanding of...”
– Without Its Master of Design, Apple Will Face Many Challenges - NYTimes.com
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be...”
– Steve Jobs (via bmdesign)
5 tags
“The more there is, the more people notice you’re “a writer” and the more you’re...”
– Dan Harmon
“Invention and discovery emanate from the ability to try seemingly wild...”
– Peter Sims, on Finding Creativity Through Imperfection - NYTimes.com (via jenbee)
July 2011
3 posts
“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But...”
– Steve Jobs via Get Rid of the Crappy Stuff - Forbes
“If a company is not able to design, develop and maintain their own products...”
– Subtraction.com: The End of Client Services
2 tags
“The internet, at this time in history, is the greatest client assignment of all...”
– Dear Graphic and Web Designers, please understand that there are greater opportunities available to you.
June 2011
4 posts
