"Simplification seems to be the removal of objects for the goal of making a graphic as clean and uncluttered as possible. Whereas, with optimization, it feels like there's more intelligence in that. It maintains the usability, but tries to distill something down to its essence. But with some data-sets you have to be careful because, as with linear, print journalism, it's easy to shave off facts that don't quite fit the flow."

-- David Mccandless

#Goal Quotes #Trying Quotes #Journalism Quotes

“The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.”
“Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other.”
“My inspirations don't come from outer space, they just come to me. I have no idea why they come when they do.”

Source : Guitar Magazine, March 1990.
“Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.”
“Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love.”
“What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.”
“Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of oneâ€™s own heart.”

Source : Yukio Mishima (1969). “Thirst for love”, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“This solo piano exploration (Beyond The Sky) by Rob Schwimmer is full of passion and love...his execution and ideas flow with a beautiful sense of freedom that captures you from his first phrase to the last.”

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