THE THINGS PEOPLE SAY…

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2021-0621

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Scott Adams
1900s | 2000s | American | Artist | b. 1957 | Cartoonist | creativity | mistakes | persistence | resilience
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2021-0618

Do the math, and you’ll find that a million seconds is about 12 days. And a billion seconds? That’s about 32 years.

Aiyana Green · Steven Strogatz
2000s | data visualization | economics | math | money | New York Times | numbers | perspective | scale
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2021-0613

Paradise is separated from hell only by an imaginary line, so it is said.

Henry Miller
1900s | American | Author | change | hell | Insomnia Or The Devil at Large | paradise | perception
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2021-0510

Man alive!

Norm Macdonald
1900s | 2000s | b. 1959 | Canada | Canadian | Comedian | comedy | outdated idioms | Quebec City
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2021-0429

Let the machine do the dirty work.

Brian Kernighan
1900s | 2000s | b.1945 | Canadian | Computer scientist | computers
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2021-0423

Again one sees the scramble for security at the cost of freedom. We are all chasing security, countries and individuals alike. But in these unsettled times what guarantees a man security? Certainly not money. No, one’s greatest security is to be loved. Banks fail, love never.

George Dibbern
1800s | 1900s | Author | blarg | freedom | German | love | Sailor | security
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2021-0214

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.

Henry Miller
1900s | American | Author | love
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2020-0531

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

Milton Glaser
1900s | 2000s | American | analogy | Artist | computers | funny | Graphic designer
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2020-0427

I’m interested in architecture, but it’s no good thing being an architect if you are interested in architecture. It’s like being a butcher if you are interested in animals.

Ed Steed
1900s | 2000s | Artist | career | Cartoonist | hobby | The New Yorker | work
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2020-0423

Beauty is temporary, ugliness lasts forever.

Marina Abramović
1900s | 2000s | Artist | authenticity | b. 1946 | beauty | Performance artist | Serbian American | time | truth | ugly
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2020-0323

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

Miles Davis
1900s | American | creativity | icon | Jazz | mistakes | Musician | tenacity
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