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Posted on April 13, 2022

“We carve out order by leaving the disorderly parts out.”—William James, Father of American Psychology, 1842-1910

Posted on March 21, 2022March 21, 2022

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”—Herman Melville, American novelist, 1819-1891

Posted on March 16, 2022

“The medium is the message.”—Marshall McLuhan, media theorist, 1911-1980

Posted on February 14, 2022

“An expert is someone who tells you why you can’t do something.”—Alec Issigonis, British automobile designer, 1906-1988

Posted on January 7, 2022January 7, 2022

“God is in the details.”—Mies van der Rohe, German-American architect, 1886-1969

Posted on December 14, 2021December 14, 2021

“Art is revolt against fate.”—André Malraux, French art theorist, 1901-1976

Posted on November 27, 2021

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”—Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, Irish novelist, 1855-1897

Posted on August 30, 2021August 30, 2021

“The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.”—Lewis Mumford, American historian, 1895-1990

Posted on August 28, 2021August 28, 2021

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”—Alan Kay, American computer graphics designer, 1940-

Posted on August 19, 2021

“Dare to be naive.”—Richard Buckminster Fuller, American designer & futurist, 1895-1983

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