“The capital has its order, the village its customs.”

— Javanese proverb

“The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation in its value is false.”

— Norbert Wiener (1950)

“If you’re in the business of making something, be in the business of making something great.”

— Bob Iger

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”

— John Muir

“The power of any orthodoxy resides in its ability to not seem like one”

— Michael Pollan

“When everything is connected to everything else, for better or worse, everything matters.”

— Bruce Mau

“A paradox is not a conflict within reality. It is a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality ‘ought to be.’”

— Richard Feynman

“I call myself a tradesman, but any good tradesman should work only on problems that come within his genuine ineterst, and you solve a problem for your client where your two interests overlap. You should do an injustice both to yourself and your client to work on a problem of interest to the client but not to you — it just wouldn’t work. In that spirit, we are tradesmen. If your work is good enough it can be art, but art isn’t a product. It’s a quality.”

— Charles Eames

“Work done with anxiety about results is far inferior to work done without anxiety, in the calm of self-surrender.”

— Bhagavad Gita