“No chance the iPhone is going to get any significant market share.”
— Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, 2007
The joy of the creative process, minute by minute, hour after hour, day by day, is the sublime path to true happiness.
George Lois
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I have a friend whos an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I dont agree with very well. Hell hold up a flower and say look how beautiful it is, and Ill agree. Then he says I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing, and I think that hes kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe
I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean its not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; theres also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure, also the processes. The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see the color. It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I don’t understand how it subtracts.
Tweet in haste, repent at leisure.
I LIKE that breakfasts are documentaries about documenting breakfast.
- L: I love this quote
- J: and I quote this love!
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
Tweets are often a kind of shorthand. A public prayer that someone, out there, hears us and understands.
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
Don’t hang out with people who are where you don’t want to be. Your friends reflect what you really feel about yourself.
Iyanla Vanzant
