"If a solution fails to appear ... and yet we feel success is just around the corner, try resting for a while. ... Like the early morning frost, this intellectual refreshment withers the parasitic and nasty vegetation that smothers the good seed. Bursting forth at last is the flower of truth."

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Source : Santiago Ramón y Cajal (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.35, MIT Press

Santiago Ramon y Cajal

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“If a dishonest creep wants to tap dance, give them the spotlight and a mirror.”
“There is no such thing as an achieved liberty: like electricity, there can be no substantial storage and it must be generated as it is enjoyed, or the lightsgto out.”
“Sometimes the words against a selfish have to be sharp, straight and blunt; it is very much like after the failure of all medications to cure a mental patient the only option left to revive him now is to give him a shock treatment through an electric current.”
“For me, a good portrait shows the fragility and humility of the person, and at the same time a strength, a resting in themselves.”
“I don’t think that anyone has really told (people) what design is. It doesn’t occur to most people that everything is designed--that every building and everything they touch in the world is designed. Even foods are designed now. So in the process of helping people understand this, making them more aware of the fact that the world around us is something that somebody has control of, perhaps they can feel some sense of control, too. I think that’s a nice ambition.”

Source : "In Remembrance Of Bill Moggridge, 1943-2012" by Linda Tischler, www.fastcodesign.com. September 10, 2012.
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