To see a world in a grain of sand
and a heaven in a wild flower,
hold infinity in the palm of your hand
and eternity in an hour.
-- William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
Preciseness
It is better to be wrong than to be vague
-- Freeman Dyson
The Ordinary
Superficial people find the extraordinary fascinating and profound people find the ordinary riveting.
-- Julian Barbour
Work
Find something you love to do and you will never have to work a day in your life.
-- Harvey MacKay
Error
The road to wisdom?
Well it's plain
and simple to express:
Err and err
and err again
but less
and less
and less.
-- Danish poet Piet Hein, (made famous by Knuth's entryway to his home)
True Power
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we consciously give other people permission to do the same.
-- Nelson Mandela 1994 Inaugural Speech
Illusion of Knowledge
The great obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
-- Daniel J. Boorstein
Thinking
To act is easy . . . to think is hard.
-- Goethe
Deduction
When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
-- Sherlock Holmes
Design
Design Evokes
design gives,
design communicates, and
design compell