"Good design is innovative Gives a product utility Is aesthetic Makes a product easy to understand Is unobtrusive Is honest Is long-lived Is consistent down to the smallest detail Protects the environment Good design is as little design as possible."

-- Dieter Rams

#Long Quotes #Giving Quotes #Design Quotes

“This perceiving, active being is what I call mind, spirit, soul, or myself. By which words I do not denote any one of my ideas, but a thing entirely distinct from them, wherein they exist, or, which is the same thing, whereby they are perceived; for the existence of an idea consists in being perceived.”

Source : George Berkeley (2015). “Principles of Human Knowledge: Human Understanding”, p.17, 谷月社
“There are no fools so troublesome as those of the mind”
“'T is said that absence conquers love; But oh believe it not! I've tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot.”

Source : Frederick William Thomas (1847). “Clinton Bradshaw: Or, The Adventures of a Lawyer. Two Volumes in One”, p.117
“Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?”
“The curse of Scottish literature is the lack of a whole language, which finally means the lack of a whole mind.”

Source : 1936 Scott and Scotland, introduction.
“Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.”
“At one point that's all I cared about, being a pro athlete. But I realized I wasn't athletic enough.”
“Everything that we believe in and count on is really in question right now. Our safety net, public education, housing, health care, so many things that are fundamental to a healthy democracy, are under attack. So I think, in general we've got a lot of work to do.”

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