"My thesis [is] that in order to design a tool, we must make our best efforts to understand the larger social and physical context within which it is intended to function"

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Source : Bill Buxton (2010). “Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design”, p.37, Morgan Kaufmann

Bill Buxton

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“Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.”
“Self-promotion has never been a point, and I'm incredibly inept at self-promotion. Talking about myself is a little less inspiring than talking about the character.”

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“Somerset has a wonderful wildness about it - it hasn't been tamed. This is farming country, and there's a realness here - I love it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel â€” it is, before all, to make you see. That â€” and no more, and it is everything. If I succeed, you shall find there according to your deserts: encouragement, consolation, fear, charm â€” all you demand; and, perhaps, also that glimpse of truth for which you have forgotten to ask.”
“Im a hard worker, and everything with me is, if I work hard, I should get paid for it. Everything with me, I try to symbolize something flashy like jewelry or a car. The rubbing hands is a symbol of hustling, so it goes back to the money.”
“That's the thing I want to make clear about depression: It's got nothing at all to do with life. In the course of life, there is sadness and pain and sorrow, all of which, in their right time and season, are normal-unpleasant, but normal. Depression is an altogether different zone because it involves a complete absence: absence of affect, absence of feeling, absence of response, absence of interest. The pain you feel in the course of a major clinical depression is an attempt on nature's part (nature, after all, abhors a vacuum) to fill up the empty space.”

Source : Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.”
“I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea. And the silence of the city when it pauses, And the silence of a man and a maid, And the silence for which music alone finds the word.”

Source : Edgar Lee Masters (1916). “Songs and Satires”

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