E. J. W. Barber famous quotes

The Japanese garden is a very important tool in Japanese architectural design because, not only is a garden traditionally included in any house design, the garden itself also reflects a deeper set of cultural meanings and traditions. Whereas the English garden seeks to make only an aesthetic impression, the Japanese garden is both aesthetic and reflective. The most basic element of any Japanese garden design comes from the realization that every detail has a significant value.
-- E. J. W. Barber

#Garden #House #Design

The simplest kind of decision is binary: that is, the question can be answered, in principle at least, by either yes or no.
-- E. J. W. Barber

#Decision #Principles #Kind

Clothing, right from our first direct evidence twenty thousand years ago, has been the handiest solution to conveying social messages visually, silently, continuously.
-- E. J. W. Barber

#Years #Clothes #Twenties

We decipherers cannot afford to be as picky as the linguist, who can always run back to a native speaker for a few more forms.
-- E. J. W. Barber

#Running #History #Form

Unlike modern military codes, ancient texts are almost never purposely misleading, purposely scrambled. ... indeed, literacy was so uncommon until classical times that the very writing of a message sufficed to keep it from almost everybody.
-- E. J. W. Barber

#Military #Reading #Writing

So powerful, in fact, is simple string in taming the world to human will and ingenuity that I suspect it to be the unseen weapon that allowed the human race to conquer the earth, that enabled us to move out into every econiche on the globe during the Upper Palaeolithic. We could call it the String Revolution.
-- E. J. W. Barber

#Powerful #Moving #Simple

I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.

"We may talk what we please," he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, "of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields d'or or d'argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms."

A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden.

I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

The other big factor in building trust quickly is site design quality. Mint.com has one of the best graphic designers ever (Jason Putorti) - he cares about every pixel, all the fonts, all the transparencies and effects. And that shows instantly. People do make judgments of trust on appearance - in the real world and online.

Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

Flow systems have two basic features (properties). There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows.

The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow…