"Content informs design; design without content is decoration."

-- Jeffrey Zeldman

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“The language of gardening fuels the senses: talk with your hands, observe with your ears and listen with your eyes.”
“It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and text of my mind.”
“The British use a system where the profits a corporation reports to shareholders is what they pay taxes on. Whereas in America we require corporations to keep two sets of books, one for shareholders and one for the IRS, and the IRS records are secret. For publicly-traded companies, the British system would tend to align the interests of the government with the interests of the company because the company wants to report the biggest possible profit. Though, all wealthy countries have high taxes as wealth requires lots of common goods, from clean water to public education to a justice system.”

Source : "Our Indefensible Tax System". Interview With Jonathan Stein, www.motherjones.com. April 11, 2006.
“I am lucky, that is all. Lucky because there are a lot of people - producers, directors, people who buy tickets - who put confidence in me.”
“I'd very much like to create my own style as a photographer, even if it's just for myself.”
“To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.”

Source : ROBERT M. HUTCHINS (1952). “THE GREAT CONVERSATION: THE SUBSTANCE OF A LIBERAL EDUCATION”
“Officially in America we now have a totally arbitrary and limitless government. That is, we have a â€˜total government.â€™ In short, weâ€™ve got totalitarian government.”
“A good deal of classical music is, today, the opium of the good citizen.”

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