{"quotes":[{"text":"I have played a few times in Barcelona, including the fantastic Olympic Stadium. It's undoubtedly one of my favourite cities in terms of the people, arts, food, architecture and design.","author":"Jean-Michel Jarre","tags":["food","design","people "],"id":932,"author_id":"Jean-Michel+Jarre"},{"text":"Every day as I wave to my children when I drop them off at school, or let one of them have a new experience—like crossing the street without holding my hand—I experience the struggle between love and non-attachment. It is hard to bear—the extreme love of one’s child and the thought that ultimately the child belongs to the world. There is this horrible design flaw—children are supposed to grow up and away from you; and one of you will die first.","author":"Sarah Ruhl","tags":["children","design","die","experience","extreme","flaw","grow-up","horrible","love","new","non-attachment","struggle","world"],"id":2651,"author_id":"Sarah+Ruhl"},{"text":"For us to deem a work of architecture elegant, it is hence not enough that it look simple: we must feel that the simplicity it displays has been hard won, that it flows from the resolution of demanding technical or natural predicament. Thus we call the Shaker staircase in Pleasant Hill elegant because we know--without ever having constructed one ourselves--that a staircase is a site complexity, and that combinations of treads, risers and banisters rarely approach the sober intelligibility of the Sharkers' work. We deem a modern Swiss house elegant because we not how seamlessly its windows have been joined to their concrete walls, and how neatly the usual clutter of construction has been resolved away. We admire starkly simple works that we intuit would, without immense effort, have appeared very complicated. (p 209).","author":"Alain de Botton","tags":["architecture","complexity","complicated","construction","design","elegance","intuition","simplicity"],"id":3289,"author_id":"Alain+de+Botton"},{"text":"Our critics make us strong!Our fears make us bold!Our haters make us wise!Our foes make us active!Our obstacles make us passionate!Our losses make us wealthy!Our disappointments make us appointed!Our unseen treasures give us aknown peace!Whatever is designed against us will work for us!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["active","against","appointed","bold","criticism","criticize","critics","design","disappointment","disappointments","enemies","fear","fears","foes","hate","haters-wise","israelmore-ayivor","loss","losses","obstacles","passionate","peace","strong","treasures","unseen","we-are-blessed","wealth","wealthy","work"],"id":3324,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.","author":"Marc Newson","tags":["design","train","people "],"id":4060,"author_id":"Marc+Newson"},{"text":"In reality, though, most of the time we don’t choose the best option—we choose the first reasonable option, a strategy known as satisficing.","author":"Steve Krug","tags":["design","psychology","usability","web-design"],"id":4063,"author_id":"Steve+Krug"},{"text":"Let's say you're walking around and you find a watch on the ground. As you examine it, you marvel at the intricately complex interweaving of its parts, a means to an end. Surely you wouldn't think this marvel would have come about by itself. The watch must have a maker. Just as the watch has such complex means to an end, so does nature to a much greater extent. Just look at the complexity of the human eye. Thus we must conclude that nature has a maker too.","author":"William Paley","tags":["creationism","design","evolution"],"id":5268,"author_id":"William+Paley"},{"text":"Make sure you test your brand story’s recipe with whomever you’re cooking it for.","author":"Laura Busche","tags":["brand","branding","business","business","design","entrepreneurship","innovation","inspiration","inspirational","marketing","personal-branding"],"id":6002,"author_id":"Laura+Busche"},{"text":"Brands play in an exciting sandbox of symbolic meanings.","author":"Laura Busche","tags":["brand","branding","business","business","design","entrepreneurship","innovation","inspiration","inspirational","marketing","personal-branding"],"id":6661,"author_id":"Laura+Busche"},{"text":"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["ambition","attitude","bills","business","busy","career","design","enjoyment","enjoyment-of-life","ethics","food","hard-labor","hard-work","humanity","hustle","hustler","idleness","intent","job","labor","laziness","life","lifestyle","living","make-a-living","making-money","means","money","money-making","peace","peace-of-mind","purpose","reason","relaxation","resources","responsibility","slavery","slothfulness","vacation","vanity","vocation","work","work-ethic","working"],"id":8123,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":339,"pages":34,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}