May 2012
2 posts
“I knew it was time to leave when I realized I could no longer look students in...”
– Greg Smith, Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs
“And that’s what I think the magic ingredient is, the secret sauce, is can you...”
– Andrew Stanton
April 2012
1 post
March 2012
5 posts
“Real isn’t how you are made… . It’s a thing that happens to...”
– The Skin Horse, in “The Velveteen Rabbit”
“We love Rock&Roll
and its attitude,
because that’s exactly
how brands...”
– Herraiz Soto & Co.
“How old is the Little Prince? We never do find out. We know he has hair of gold....”
– Maria Konnikova, in “The Big Lesson of a Little Prince: (Re)capture the Creativity of Childhood”
“What is genius? It is the power to be a boy again at will.”
– J.M. Barrie, as referenced in “The Big Lesson of a Little Prince: (Re)capture the creativity of Childhood”
“When I tasted the sushi, I felt like I was listening to music.”
– “Jiro Dreams of Sushi”
February 2012
4 posts
“Filled with a vibrant spice for life, Allumette has arrived to bring excitement...”
– Write-up for Blabla Kids’ Allumette Boogaloo This is my most favorite product write-up ever! This is what I want my work/website/everything to feel like! My north star…
“There has not been a time, i don’t think, in history, that has enabled...”
– David Weinberger on Networked Society “On the Brink”
“For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are...”
– Carl Sagan, “Pale Blue Dot”
“It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to.”
– Jean-Luc Godard
January 2012
0 posts
“All advice is autobiographical.
It’s one of my theories that when people give...”
– Austin Kleon
November 2011
1 post
“I like my bacon burnt and my yolk broke.”
– My friend, Jenika Kurtz
September 2011
1 post
“A man’s usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he...”
– Theodore Roosevelt (inscribed on a wall at the American Museum of Natural History)
June 2011
1 post
April 2011
2 posts
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
– Oscar Wilde
“What do you do with a BA in English? What is my life going to be? Four years of...”
– Princeton in Avenue Q
February 2011
4 posts
“I am a photographer, biologist, idealist, and carnivore. I want to live before I...”
– Han Phan
“I’m a New York-based photographer with a particular interest in...”
– Lisa Weatherbee, photographer
December 2010
1 post
“Learn to say “Fuck You” to the world once in a while. You have every right to.
...”
– Sol LeWitt to Eva Hesse From The Accidental Maserterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa
November 2010
1 post
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you...”
– Gandhi
October 2010
1 post
Small-scale production: An atom-based product,... →
For me to remember…
September 2010
3 posts
“If you want to build a well, you have to dig deep.”
– don’t know yet. but for now, thank you melanie avshman.
“I think a lot of the problems we’ve been experiencing come from the fact that no...”
– Patton Oswalt (via viafrank)
July 2010
9 posts
“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.”
– Winston Churchill
“But here’s the thing. Horace didn’t say that. “Carpe diem” doesn’t mean seize...”
– From Nicholson Baker’s The Anthologist. He continues:
What Horace had in mind was that you should gently pull on the day’s stem, as if it were, say, a wildflower or an olive, holding it with all the practiced care of your thumb and the side of your finger, which knows how to not crush easily crushed...
1 tag
cleonymous asked: http://sikkin.tumblr.com/post/827187780/my-8-month-old-cousin-trying-to-make-sense-of-our
so cute omg
so cute omg
1 tag
“All people dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night, in the dusty...”
– D.H. Lawrence
“Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the...”
– Minor White, Photographer
“All day I think about it, then at night I say it.
Where did I come from, and...”
– Rumi
“To be nobody but yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day,...”
– e.e. cummings
June 2010
3 posts
“Everybody has a drama, a struggle that they went through, and for me it was...”
– Ira Glass
“maybe we should develop a crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. a happiness...”
– Robert Fulghum (via quote-book) (via cooling)
May 2010
2 posts
Poker Face - Glee version of Lady Gaga song
“…I like to think my brother is having a college experience like they do in...”
– Stephen Chbosky, “Perks of Being a Wallflower”
February 2010
1 post
“…I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, 1903 in Letters to a Young Poet
November 2009
2 posts
“Grown-ups are like that …
Fortunately, however, for the reputation of...”
– Antoine de Saint Exupery, “The Little Prince”
“Have you ever thought about what protects our hearts?
Just a cage of rib bones...”
– Ingird Michaelson, “Breakable”
September 2009
1 post
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the people to gather wood,...”
– Antoine De Saint-Exupery, “The Little Prince”
July 2009
1 post
Weather Map
I really like this diagram. It is a weather map from a Japanese newspaper. I got it from reading Edward Tufte’s Envisioning Information.
June 2009
2 posts
Piano
i love the simplicity and succinctness of this.
via http://supergraphic.blogspot.com/
April 2009
4 posts
