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Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

by Fuchsia Dunlop

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Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making

by Tony Fadell

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The Brain

by Ammar al-Chalabi

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Nathan’s Quotes

“It doesn’t matter how many times I have to click, as long as each click is a mindless, unambiguous choice.”
― Steve Krug, Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

tags: usability, web-design

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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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“When everyone zigs, zag”
― Stephen Anderson

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“The linking of rationality with mysticism, knowability with what is unknown, makes it a powerful fetish that offers its programmers and users alike a sense of empowerment, of sovereign subjectivity, that covers over-barely-a sense of profound ignorance.”
― Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Programmed Visions: Software and Memory

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“In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.”
― Buckminster R. Fuller

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