“I knew it was time to leave when I realized I could no longer look students in the eye and tell them what a great place this was to work.” — Greg Smith, Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs
“And that’s what I think the magic ingredient is, the secret sauce, is can you invoke wonder. Wonder is honest, it’s completely innocent. It can’t be artificially evoked. For me, there’s no greater ability than the gift of another human being giving you that feeling — to hold them still just for a brief moment in their day and have them surrender to wonder.” — Andrew Stanton
New album artwork for Odin’s band.
“Real isn’t how you are made… . It’s a thing that happens to you.” — The Skin Horse, in “The Velveteen Rabbit”
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We love Rock&Roll
and its attitude,
because that’s exactly
how brands should
connect with their consumers.
We love turning
consumers into fans.
We love Jim Morrison because
he said “I am the Lizard King,
I can do anything”.
We love Camper, IKEA, Carrefour,
BMW and Casio because they
are some of our clients.
We love Ben&Jerry’s
when they’re not empty and
Moleskines when they’re full.
We love Barcelona because
its Barcelona and it’s five minutes
from the rest of the world.
We love good ideas and
draught beer although
one isn’t necessarily
connected to the other.
We love the future because
we can invent it.
We love music because
it says things that words
could never say.
We love the impossible because
it’s like the bogeyman,
a lie to make people behave.
We love technology because,
right from the beginning it has
always created the coolest
tools for artists to best
express themselves.
We love ping-pong because
it’s like life itself: there is
no ping without the pong.
We love post-its because
they’re like Twitter, only on paper.
We love the word “beautiful”
because it’s impossible to say it
without getting emotional.
We love energy. The good sort.
The kind that’s created when
someone smiles.
We love badminton, levitation
and all those things that
we haven’t done yet.
We love creativity,
because, in reality,
it’s the only thing
we’d take with us to a
desert island.
“How old is the Little Prince? We never do find out. We know he has hair of gold. That his laugh is like the sparkle of the stars. That he loves a rose. That he tamed a wise fox and made him his friend. And at the end of the day, isn’t that all that really matters?” — 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”
“Filled with a vibrant spice for life, Allumette has arrived to bring excitement back into yours. Allumette is done in all the brightest, most lively colors of a raging flame, including hot red, simmering pink, deep orange and scorching white. Is he animal, vegetable, mineral, or perhaps a clever woodland spirit? No one knows for sure, but he is warm and inviting all the same.”
— 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 such rapid change, and in the most optimistic view, which is also simultaneously the most pessimistic view, a time that is enabling humans to be more of what we are.” — David Weinberger on Networked Society “On the Brink”
“For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.” — Carl Sagan, “Pale Blue Dot”
“It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to.” — Jean-Luc Godard
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All advice is autobiographical.
It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.
” — Austin Kleon“I like my bacon burnt and my yolk broke.” — My friend, Jenika Kurtz
“A man’s usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.
It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
All daring and courage all iron endurance of misfortune make for a finer nobler type of manhood.
Only those who are fit to live who do not fear to die, and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.”
— Theodore Roosevelt (inscribed on a wall at the American Museum of Natural History)