Arbitraries » Quote

Serial Art

Jeff — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 01:58:06 +0000

“the serial artist does not attempt to produce a beautiful or mysterious object but functions merely as a clerk cataloguing the results of his premise.” Sol LeWitt

By the way…

Jeff — Thu, 27 May 2010 02:52:28 +0000

“By the way, what have you done that’s so great? Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?”
Steve Jobs

Truth

Jeff — Tue, 25 May 2010 12:24:00 +0000

“Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.”
Robert Frost

Simple

Jeff — Sun, 23 May 2010 02:43:12 +0000

“So much complexity in software comes from trying to make one thing do two things.” Ryan Singer

Good Deeds

Jeff — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:16:52 +0000

‘No good deed goes unpunished.’
Clare Booth Luce (1903 – 1987)

Contradiction

Jeff — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:59:26 +0000

“A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.”
George Bernard Shaw

Possibilities

Jeff — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:52:42 +0000

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few”
Shunryu Suzuki (Japanese Zen priest, ?-1971)

… someone you don’t like …

Jeff — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:55:19 +0000

‘An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do.’
Dylan Thomas, in Constantine Fitzgibbon, Life of Dylan Thomas (1965)
Welsh poet (1914 – 1953)

Deep Thinking

Jeff — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 02:44:25 +0000

‘The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.’ – Nikola Tesla

YKK

Jeff — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:40:01 +0000

“No one prospers unless he renders benefit to others.” Tadao Yoshida