"The nature of the hybrid research/design model means that we often can see design efforts as attempts not to concretize the outcomes of research but instead to justify, promote, or initiate them"

--

Source : Paul Dourish, Genevieve Bell (2011). “Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing”, p.40, MIT Press

#Mean Quotes #Design Quotes #Effort Quotes

“I was on a train of lies. I couldn't jump off.”
“I looked for the church and I found it in the world; I looked for the world and I found it in the church.”
“This seems counterintuitive, but turns out that as infant mortality is reduced, population sizes also decrease, because parents don't need to anticipate that their babies are going to die.”
“Reader look, not on his picture but his book.”
“You're in front of an audience, but you're playing for a camera. There's this huge adrenaline rush, because you know that besides the audience in the studio, there are millions of people watching at home.”
“I saw David Lynch’s “The Elephant Man” (1980) when I was 15. I was completely bowled over. I found it so beautiful, strange and mesmerizing that I went back to the cinema every night for a week to see it.”
“I have, over the years brought an enormous number of plays to television starting obviously with Nicholas Nickelby and then things like Angels In America or in Wit with Emma Thompson and Mike Nichols. So, yes, I do find that very interesting and I'm sure that down the road there will be plays that I'll want to do that way.”

Source : Source: deadline.com
“Everything is touched by the holy when it is in the presence of death.”

You may also like:

Bill Buxton
Researcher
Genevieve Bell
Geoffrey Wolff
Novelist
Mark Weiser
Computer Scientist
Philip E. Agre
Tarleton Gillespie
Author
Francisco J. Ayala
Biologist