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Friday, March 26, 2004

 

Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thursday, March 25, 2004

 

Where liberty is, there is my country.

Benjamin Franklin

Wednesday, March 24, 2004

 

I want buildings that have passion in them, that have feeling in them, that make people feel something, even if they get mad at them.

Frank Gehry

Tuesday, March 23, 2004

 

"If a thing is worth doing, it's worth doing well." This is one of the most wasteful and destructive sayings I know. In theory it sounds good, but it makes people feel guilty every time they can't do something well. So they avoid many activities they would otherwise enjoy and might eventually master.

I think we should change this saying to "If a thing is worth doing, it's worth doing badly." That doesn't, of course mean that it can't or shouldn't be done well, it just gives us permission to go through the cumbersome process of being awkward at it for a time.


Peter Kline
The Everyday Genius

Monday, March 22, 2004

 

The future is there looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. And from where they are, the past behind us will look nothing at all like the past we imagine behind us now.

William Gibson
Pattern Recognition