"The idea is that the content is the interface, the information is the interface, not computer-administrative debris."

-- Edward Tufte

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“The militant Muslim is the person who beheads the infidel, while the moderate Muslim holds the feet of the victim.”
“One's head is finite. You pour more and more things into it - surnames, chronologies, affiliations - and it packs them away in its tunnels, and eventually you find that you have a book about something that you publish.”
“I enjoy it when the world smiles; the more smiles, the warmer I am.”

Source : "The Shape" by Dejan Stojanovic, Gramatik, Podgorica, "The Shape and a Smile", (p. 10), 2000.
“Nature does not hesitate to interfere with me. So I do not hesitate to tamper with it.”

Source : Henry Mitchell (1999). “One Man's Garden”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“From the animist point of view, humans belong in a sacred place because they themselves are sacred. Not sacred in a special way, not more sacred than anything else, but merely as sacred as anything else -- as sacred as bison or salmon or crows or crickets or bears or sunflowers.”
“Ama wipes her hands on her apron, looks up at our old roof with new eyes, and lifts the baby from his basket. She twirls him in the air, her skirts flying around her ankles the way the clouds swirl around the mountain cap--her laughter fresh and strange and musical to my ears.”
“I'm not comfortable being that outgoing guy. That's not me. I never used to talk to anybody.”
“Let us not forget that group of self-taught, outsider artists who never stepped foot in any classroom and cared less about even exhibiting, and yet ended up with an audience of avid admirers.”

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