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  1. Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar. |
     

    On Work

    #488

  2. A technology is not an independent or alien object, it complements integrally our sensory and cognitive system; as a medium, it conditions not only communication modes but also the way we perceive and conceive our environment. When these ratios change men change. |
     

    On Technology

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  3. When you play, play hard. When you work, don't play at all. |
     

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  4. Be clear first and clever second. If you have to throw one of those out, throw out clever. |
     

    #110

  5. Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. |
     

    #14

  6. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. |
     

    #16

  7. Don't design for everyone; it's impossible. All you end up doing is designing something that makes everyone unhappy. |
     

    #76

  8. The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural, and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good rather than the God of Being-Good. |
     

    #42

  9. We feel better when we find ways to make other people feel better. Kindness towards others is like a sandwich that feeds two. |
     

    #962

  10. Nobody dies a virgin... Life fucks us all. |
     

    On Poetry

    #957

  11. O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. |
     

    On Mankind

    #954

  12. Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. |
     

    On Struggle, challenges and difficulties

    #953

  13. The World is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. |
     

    On Knowledge & Intelligence

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  14. If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. |
     

    On Struggle, challenges and difficulties

    #945

  15. Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are. |
     

    On Life and Death

    #936

  16. There is little difference between obstacle and opportunity. The wise are able to turn both to their advantage. |
     

    #935

  17. Most of us can manage no more than a narrow little obsession with a particular human who we mistakenly imagine can satisfy our gargantuan yearning for the real, primordial thing. |
     

    On Love

    #932

  18. If you can see a thing whole… it seems that it’s always beautiful. Planets, lives... But close up, a world’s all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life’s a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death. |
     

    On Life and Death

    #931

  19. Gravity pulls me to the future, bits of me falling off along the way. Each of us disappears into the mist of the possible. In our minds, time is gravity’s other side. |
     

    On Life and Death

    #930 source

  20. What exists, exists so that it can be lost and become precious. |
     

    On Life and Death

    #929 source

  21. If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves. |
     

    On Happiness

    #928

  22. We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. |
     

    On Mankind

    #905

  23. The reality you live in is partially up to you. The fantasy you live in is entirely up to you. |
     

    On Happiness

    #898

  24. Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far. |
     

    On Struggle, challenges and difficulties

    #894