“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.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― 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.”
― Ficciones
― Ficciones
“We need to value the consequences of our actions more than the cleverness of our ideas.”
― Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It
― Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It
“To design is to influence.”
― Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It
― 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.”
― The Three-Body Problem
― The Three-Body Problem
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