#no

Whatever is dependently co-arisen That is explained to be emptiness. That, being a dependent designation Is itself the Middle Way. ↗

— Nāgārjuna

#design

this terror then and drakness of mind must be dispelled not by the rays of the sun and glittering shafts of day, but by the aspect and the law of nature; the warp whose design we shall begin with this first principle, nothing is ever gotten out of nothing by divine power. ↗

— Titus Lucretius Carus

#nothing #design

Few things are more absurd than wise saws originally designed to inculcate or maintain the social needs of a society long past - when they are applied to today. ↗

— Idries Shah

#big-picture #lack-of-knowledge #lack-of-perspective #rigidity #design

For good or for bad, we define ourselves in many ways by the gadgets we use and the clothes we wear. We don't want to surround ourselves with cheap products. Nobody really aspires to that. We also don't want to pay for a diamond-encrusted ereader. We don't need bling; we just need to feel like the design speaks to us. ↗

— Jason Merkoski

#technology #design

God's design is for His anointing to come upon those He finds trustworthy, to empower them to do great things for Him. ↗

— Rodney Burton

#empower #revival #design

We interrogate the world by making. ↗

— Bill Burnett

#design-thinking #innovation #inspirational #stanford #design

I just designed the world’s most inefficient no. It’s modeled after a downward sloping maybe.
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— Jarod Kintz

#humor #indecision #inefficient #maybe #no

Girly’ products can spur Japan’s growth in this century every bit as much as, if not more than, the ‘manly’ technologies. ↗

— Morinosuke Kawaguchi

#culture #design #japan #manga #technology

Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought. ↗

— Baldassare Castiglione

#nonchalance #sprezzatura #design

A hive mind is a social organization of RISTs that are capable of processing semantic memes ("thinking"). These could be either carbon-based or silicon-based. RISTs who enter a hive mind surrender their independent identities (which are mere illusions anyway). For purposes of convenience, the constituents of the hive mind are assigned bit-pattern designators. ↗

— Neil Stephenson

#design