"Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again."

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Source : "Mathematical Modeling and Experimental Study of Interface Aesthetics". Book by Michael P. Bauerly, 2007.

Ben Shneiderman

#Art Quotes #Engineering Quotes #Design Quotes

“No one wants to learn from mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art.”
“I'm a writer. That's who I am, at my core. I'm a writer, and then I learned production and administration, along the way. I feel like most people can learn it because production and the administration part is all about logic, and it's all about learning rules and budgets.”
“Team guts always beat individual greatness.”
“[Science is] the desire to know causes.”
“Here's me opening my wrists before breakfast, Christmas day, and here's you asking if it hurt. Here's where I choose between mea culpa and Why the hell should I tell you?”

Source : Michael Donaghy (2011). “Collected Poems”, p.104, Pan Macmillan
“We must do a better job of educating all drivers to be safer on the road.”
“Worry is a prayer for something you don't want.”
“Like most men, Jimmy Jim was neither all good nor all bad. It is just that when he was bad, gentler people saw in him a disturbing fury. People, a lot them, don't understand fury. They understand anger and even hatred, but fury is one of those old words that have gone out of style. Jimmy Jim Bundrum understood it. It rode his shoulder like a parrot.”

Source : Rick Bragg (2010). “Ava's Man”, p.35, Vintage

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