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“I was only halfway to the record and it seemed like it took me a long time. I feel like that one will never be broken. That record will never be touched.”
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“The last word always belongs to the audience... that blessed connection... that is a most powerful feeling. One that is worth savouring on dark nights when the wind blows. On the other hand there is no way of ever knowing when one steps out into that circle, if the connection will be made. The promise is there, the hope is there, but no certainty whatsoever. Which is, I suppose, the attraction. That connection, when it happens, is magic. When it doesn't... Turn out the lights.”
Source : "Ruth Cracknell: a biased memoir".
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“I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving.”
Source : Jeffrey Veen (2001). “The Art & Science of Web Design”, New Riders Pub
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“I love the novel of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profoundly beautiful novel. I love the movie of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profoundly beautiful movie. And they're totally different. You accept each on its own terms, and that's kind of the ideal.”
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“Change comes with both fear and some pain. Those two ingredients create mistrust, misunderstanding and misinformation. Such is the process of democracy.”
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“The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.”
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“When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments.”
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“The future bears a resemblance to the past, only more so.”
