"The dog is gone. We miss him. When the doorbell rings, no one barks. When we come home late, there is no one waiting for us. We still find his white hairs here and there around the house and on our clothes. We pick them up. We should throw them away. But they are all we have left of him. We don’t throw them away. We have a wild hope—if only we collect enough of them, we will be able to put the dog back together again." — Lydia Davis Can't and Won't, "The Dog Hair"
"It gave me the stare of a cat, disinterested but true." — Craig Childs The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild
"The cat speaks in symbols." — Craig Childs The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild
"It’s not enough that we build products that function, that are understandable and usable, we also need to build products that bring joy and excitement, pleasure and fun, and yes, beauty to people’s lives." — Don Norman
"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works." — Steve Jobs
"Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent." — Joe Sparano
"Design is where science and art break even." — Robin Mathew
"Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style." — Massimo Vignelli
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." — Antoine De Saint-Exupery Airman's Odyssey
"The earth without art is just eh." — Unknown
"Beauty is the door to another world." — Voytek Kurtyka Alpinist Magazine, Issue 43, "The View from the Wall"
"We click the shutter release, only to have our work instantly become a part of the past—moments frozen in time, just as droplets of water freeze onto a growing icicle." — Nikki Smith
"Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph." — Robert Heinecken
"We are led to believe we can have it if we try hard enough or spend enough, whatever "it" is. We are encouraged to believe that we can be free, but free of what? And through the influence of a common turn of modern political thought, many of us have come to believe if we don't get "it," no one is to blame but ourselves." — Nick Bullock Alpinist Magazine, Issue 68, "Less Rich Without You"
"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell." — Edward Abbey The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West
"The three policy pillars of this new era are familiar to us all: privatization of the public sphere, deregulation of the corporate sector, and lower corporate taxation, paid for with cuts to public spending." — Naomi Kline This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
"The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing just gets bigger. Something will eventually bring down the charming, infuriating naïveté of Americans that allows us our blithe consumption and cheerful ignorance of the secret ugliness that bring us whatever we want. … Nostalgia for an earlier ignorance is not the domain of this discussion." — Barbara Kingsolver Small Wonder
"The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit the views. Which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering." — 4th Doctor Doctor Who, "The Face of Evil"
"Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." — Malcolm Forbes
"Don’t hate what you don’t understand." — John Lennon
