Humans aren't rational -- they rationalize. And I don't just mean "some of them" or "other people". I'm talking about everyone. We have a "logic engine" in our brains, but for the most part, it's not the one in the driver's seat -- instead it operates after the fact, generating rationalizations and excuses for our behavior. -- Paul Buchheit

1 - Creativity and innovation always build on the past. 2 - The past always tries to control the creativity that builds on it. 3 - Free societies enable the future by limiting the past. 4 - Ours is less and less a free society. -- Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture.

Abstraction is a form of data compression: absolutely necessary, because human short-term memory is so small, but the critically important aspect of abstraction is the algorithm that gets you from the name back to the "uncompressed" details. -- Bruce Wilder (blog post comment)

Normality is the route to nowhere. -- Ridderstrale & Nordstorm, Funky Business

If there is a will, there is a way. -- unknown

A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longuer anything to add, but when there is no longuer anything to take away. -- Antoine de St Exupery.

You become what you believe. –Oprah Winfrey

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing. ~Martha Stewart

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. ~Thomas Jefferson

You can do anything, but not everything. ~Anonymous