#si

4. Radicalism of forms. If a new model once created meets with much success on account of its greater efficiency than its predecessor, it lends certain neighbouring forms a formal radicalism, which attempts to borrow from the appearance of the new form: for example, bronze tools that had reached the furthest development of their utility had a disastrous influence on stone tools, warping them toward an elegance that could only be attained in bronze. Today aviation has imposed its aerodynamic forms even on baby strollers and irons. This radicalism of forms is a result of the fact that people become bored when they do not find some unexpected element in the familiar. This radicalism might seem illogical, as the advocates of standardization believe, but we must not forget that discovery is only made possible by this need of humanity. ↗

— Tom McDonough

#design

Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good. ↗

— William McDonough

#design #ecology #good #green #design

Will highly comprehensible code, by virtue of being easy to modify, inevitably be supplanted by increasingly less elegant code until some equilibrium is achieved between comprehensibility and fragility? Perhaps simple on the outside/fragile on the inside can be an effective survival strategy for evolving artifacts. ↗

— Brian Foote Joseph Yoder

#design

Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter. ↗

— Brad Henry

#compass #falter #families #great #guide

Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated. ↗

— Brad Henry

#became #called #compassion #defeated #face

Basically it's the core story. About a guy having an affair with the mother of the girl he falls in love with. ↗

— Buck Henry

#affair #basically #core #falls #girl

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness. ↗

— Matthew Henry

#dreadful #god #his #his holiness #holiness

I have never learned to read or write music so I am not a virtuoso musician like the others you mentioned. I am completely unable to play like them because I never learned classical music, I just developed my own crazy style! ↗

— Ken Hensley

#because #classical #classical music #completely #crazy

My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation for anything you do, so I wanted to get a classical background and voice. ↗

— Shuler Hensley

#background #ballet #best #classical #classical training

In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like. ↗

— Os Guinness

#freedom #humanity #positive-freedom #truth #virtue