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“Some subtle influence passed from him to me, and for the first time in my life I saw in the plain woodland the wonder I had always looked for, and always missed.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“He measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones

“We need to value the consequences of our actions more than the cleverness of our ideas.”
― Mike Monteiro, Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It

“To design is to influence.”
― Mike Monteiro, Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It

“There was a movie called Maple recently. I don’t know if you’ve seen it. At the end, an adult and a child stand in front of the grave of a Red Guard who had died during the faction civil wars. The child asks the adult, ‘Are they heroes?’ The adult says no. The child asks, ‘Are they enemies?’ The adult again says no. The child asks, ‘Then who are they?’ The adult says, ‘History.”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem

“In design, darkness creates a frisson that excites and challenges.”
― Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby

“Fate would not have the reputation it has, if it simply did what it seemed it would do.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“But don’t worry. Gradual blindness is not tragic. It’s like the slowly growing darkness of a summer evening.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory

“I felt what we always feel when someone dies–the sad awareness, now futile, of how little it would have cost us to have been more loving. One forgets that one is a dead man conversing with dead men.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory

“Some of the greatest innovations have come from people who only succeeded because they were too dumb to know that what they were doing was impossible.”
― Jesse Schell, The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses