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Die Hard asks naive but powerful questions: If you have to get from A to B —that is, from the 31st floor to the lobby, or from the 26th floor to the roof—why not blast, carve, shoot, lockpick, and climb your way there, hitchhiking rides atop elevator cars and meandering through the labyrinthine, previously unexposed back-corridors of the built... See more
Geoff Manaugh • Nakatomi Space
see: Friedensreich Hundertwasser; MIT20 building
possibility spaces.
Word-work is sublime, she thinks, because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference – the way in which we are like no other life.
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
Toni Morrison – Nobel Lecture - NobelPrize.org
Toni Morrison Nobel Prize in Literature 1993
“May synthesizing minds thrive.” — Howard Gardner
Howard Gardner • A Look Inside “A Synthesizing Mind” by Howard Gardner (Book Summary)
Don't play everything (or every time); let some things go by... What you don't play can be more important than what you do.
Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk • Thelonious Monk Quote
The perils of designing for scale
“We are in the midst of a major social transformation — moving many of our day-to-day activities from physical places to information-based places that we experience on our phones and computers. The central question here is: How can we design these information environments so they serve our social needs in the long... See more
“We are in the midst of a major social transformation — moving many of our day-to-day activities from physical places to information-based places that we experience on our phones and computers. The central question here is: How can we design these information environments so they serve our social needs in the long... See more
