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Who Gets What ― and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design

by Alvin E. Roth

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Noba Psychology: The Full Noba Collection

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by Rose M. Spielman

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“Graphic Design for its own sake will never happen, because the concept cancels itself out — a poster about nothing other than itself is not Graphic Design, it's … makin' ART.”
― Chip Kidd, The Cheese Monkeys

tags: art, design, graphic-design

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“Public and civic value require commitment and hard work among the core group of participants. It also requires that these groups be self-governing and submit to constraints that help them ignore distracting and entertaining material and stay focused instead of some sophisticated task.”
― Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age

tags: civic-value, community, new-media, public-value, value

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“In essence, it is not what it looks like but what it does that defines a symbol.”
― Paul Rand, Thoughts on Design

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“People never forget things, they just never remembered it in the first place because it was too boring”
― Richard Saul Wurman, Information Anxiety

tags: humour, truth

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“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.”
― Bertrand Russell

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