"...wisdom is in large part the knowledge of how to avoid doing dumb things, and thus grows globally as a function of the published inventory of stupid mistakes."

-- Tim Bray

#Mistake Quotes #Stupid Quotes #Design Quotes

“When you work with great people, you learn - about film, about clothing, about life, about sex.”
“How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.”
“You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces which have been produced at different periods.”
“God has given you your child, that the sight of him, from time to time, might remind you of His goodness, and induce you to praise Him with filial reverence.”

Source : Christian Scriver (1860). “Gotthold's Emblems: Or, Invisible Things Understood by Things that are Made”, p.259
“Most of the generation Trump - the alt-right people, the people who like me - they're not anti-Semites. They don't care about Jews. I mean they may have some assumptions about Jews. They may have some prejudice about Jews that the Jews run everything. Well, we do.”
“The point at which the photograph ceases to function as a metaphor is the point at which it is free to propose an experiential model.”
“In terms of having to uphold something, I don't need any added pressure. I need to be free in the work.”

Source : "Sonja Sohn ReWires Baltimore". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. March 15, 2012.
“I enjoy being surprised.”

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