“There are no standards of taste in wine, cigars, poetry, prose, etc. Each man’s own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.” — Mark Twain
“We’re all a little weird. And life is weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.” — Robert Fulghum
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Designing a product is keeping five thousand things in your brain and fitting them all together in new and different ways to get what you want. And every day you discover something new that is a new problem or a new opportunity to fit these things together a little differently.
And it’s that process that is the magic.
” — Steve Jobs[video]
“One man with courage is a majority.”
“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” — Greek proverb
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“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably will not themselves be realized.” — Daniel Burnham