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What works well and feels good will eventually start looking good. But not everything that looks good, feels good or works well.

— iA

Each age has its presiding metaphor. Ours is aerial bombing.

— Teju Cole

the people who decide on our future are thoroughly confused by the present.

— @benhammersley

The hard part of professional journalism going forward is writing about what hasn’t been written about, directing attention where it hasn’t been, and saying something new.

— Seth Godin

— Beckett

When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and you’re life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money.

That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.

Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.

— Steve Jobs

I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, To put to rout all that was not life and not when I had come to die Discover that I had not lived.

— Thoreau

I am no more than a single human man wandering my lonely way across these years.

— DH Lawrence