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Music was the heart, he realized, the fullest expression of the human heart, and now that he had heard what he had heard, he was beginning to hear better, and the better he heard, the more deeply he felt —sometimes so deeply that his body shook.

it was hard for Ferguson to attach himself to any of the people he knew, since he always felt alone when he was with them, although being alone with others was probably a little less terrible than being alone with himself, which invariably seemed to push his thoughts back to the same old obsessions.

how could he have known anything at that point, but there it was, a feeling, an intuition, a certainty that something important was happening and that he and Amy Schneiderman were about to set off on a long journey together.

he could sense that her feelings were not as strong as his, and much as she seemed to like him, much as she seemed to enjoy his body and his record albums and his way of talking to her, he was destined to love more than he was loved in return, and within a month of their first kiss, he understood that he had to play by her rules or else risk not being with her at all.

Adolescence feeds on drama, it is most happy when living in extremis

Corrupt men were everywhere, and the more powerful the man, the greater the potential for corruption

Everything solid for a time, and then the sun comes up one morning and the world begins to melt.

the glazed-over look of a man unable to see anything but the thoughts inside his own head, a man who was there but not there, gone.

for whether they were in the business of making dollars or making words, each man was driven by his work to the exclusion of all other things, which made them both tense and distracted when they weren’t working, obtuse and self-involved, semi-blind.

in order to earn too much, a person had to devote an excessive amount of time to the pursuit of money, far more time than it was necessary or reasonable

El xantatge ha de ser desafiat sempre.

The opportunity lost by increasing the amount of blank space is gained back with enhanced attention on what remains. In turn, proportionately more attention shall be paid to which is made less available. When there is less, we appreciate everything else much more.

If given an empty space or any extra room, technologists would invent something to fill the expanse; similarly, business people would not want to pass up the potential lost opportunity.
On the other hand, a designer would choose to do their best to preserve the emptyness because of their perspective that nothing is an important something.

What lies in the periphery of simplicity is definitely not peripheral.

Los hombres como él, tan comprometidos con unos ideales que consideran por encima de todas las personas, incluso por encima de ellos mismos... no son capaces de crear lazos fuertes con nadie, porque para ellos, los lazos no son tan importantes como el deber.

Y a menudo las heroicidades no eran la opción más lógica, sino la acción más desesperada. Por eso pocos héroes llegaban a viejos. Por eso había una línea tan fina entre el heroísmo y la locura.

A menudo no era una cuestión de valentía o de cobardía, sino de detenerse o no a pensar en las consecuencias de lo que uno mismo hacía.

Los héroes, aquellos capaces de sacrificarse por la colectividad, eran escasos.

El pensamiento está relacionado con el lenguaje: cuanto mejor dominamos una lengua, más claros y complejos son también nuestros pensamientos.

We know how to appreciate something better when we can compare it to something else.

Knowledge is comfort, and comfort lies at the heart of simplicity.

Styling is a form of deception that, although misleading, can be a desirable attribute from a consumer perspective.

When any interaction with products or service providers happen quickly, we attribute this efficiency to the perceived simplicity of experience.

The best designers in the world all squint when they look at something. They squint to see the forest from the trees—to find the right balance. Squint at the world. You will see more, by seeing less.

The upside of materialism is that the way something we own feels can change how we feel.

that was perhaps their greatest bond, the need for music that ran through their bodies, which at that point in their lives was no different from the need to find a way to exist in the world.