Ellie Macleod
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Ellie Macleod
Asterism (⁂): A fancy section divider
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Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas
Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas
Happy the Man, who, studying Nature's Laws, / Thro' known Effects can trace the secret Cause
Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas
Hundreds of words await ostracism from our functional vocabularies: waltz and fizz and squeeze and booze and frozen pizza pie, frizzy and fuzzy and dizzy and duzzy, the visualization of emphyzeema-zapped Tarzans, wheezing and sneezing, holding glazed and anodized bazookas, seized by all the bizarrities of this zany zone we call home. Dazed or zombi... See more
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The ability to see not just what is, but what could be. At H&H, we anticipate, design, and bring to life ideas that others have yet to imagine.
Vision takes shape through creation. Bringing something new into existence means turning potential into tangible reality. This requires expertise and belief: qua
... See moreThere are two kinds of causes, those that are intelligent, and those that, being moved by others, are, in turn, compelled to move others. The former are endowed with mind, and are the workers of things fair and good, while the latter produce chance effects without order or design.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
“causation” is simple, if a little metaphorical: a variable X is a cause of Y if Y “listens” to X and determines its value in response to what it hears.
Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie • The Book of Why
Pablo Picasso: “Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.” James Baldwin: “Perhaps the primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.” Bob Dylan: “To be creative you’ve got to be unsociable and tight-assed.”