"Everyday people are not very good designers."

-- Donald A. Norman

#People Quotes #Everyday Quotes #Designer Quotes

“I have one problem, I donâ€™t hate people. They disgust me and I want to get away from them. I do not have hatred. I have an escape mechanism.”
“I think that my life changed at 50. Many things happened. Menopause, the end of youth and my daughter died that year after being a whole year in a coma. So I think that I changed and I became an elder at 50.”
“Most people aren't encouraged to think of their labor as very valuable. We usually think of it as the necessary thing we engage in in order to survive. We live in a world where our ability to survive is connected to our ability to draw a paycheck. But there are other ways of organizing labor and culture. For example, people who are pushing for fixed universal base income, or a welfare system that separates wage labor from the compensation required to survive. It was only when I thought of those alternatives that I was able to really understand what we mean when we say sex work is work.”
“This is the difference between conservatives and liberals. Liberals want justices to vote a certain way. We [ conservatives] want a particular legal philosophy, a philosophy for how to interpret the Constitution.”
“I love London because of the history. The times I've been there have been some of the best memories in my life. Singing there, seeing great theater - and the people like a Southern accent.”
“Reality is as thin as paper and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character.”

Source : Bruno Schulz, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Goldfarb (2008). “The street of crocodiles and other stories”, Penguin Classics
“We prefer to find mates who are roughly as attractive as we are, which means they are more likely to stay and not look for a better offer.”
“Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.”

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