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“I believe in total freedom and information transparency. I want everybody to know everything. And I think society, this country that I moved to will be better off if we could talk freely about everything. So that’s – I’m an extremist when it comes to that.”

— Nick Denton, 2D15-5044 / Appendix 1

“Freedom of expression will always be more popular in principle than in practice. We want to be free to express ourselves, but are less enthusiastic when that freedom is exercised by others with whom we disagree. Nobody likes a critic.”

— Nick Denton, The Hogan Verdict

“Atomic design isn’t about designing a single instance or page, it’s about designing with the big picture in mind — it’s about designing the core of the system.”

— Joe Toscano, The Unicorn Workflow: Design to Code with Atomic Design Principles and Sketch

“I applied the change yesterday not sure if it has been deployed.”

— Clinton Halpin, Is QA Up

“I don't repeat myself. I don't repeat myself.”

— Donald Trump, GOP Presidential Debate

“"If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole."”

— Raylan Givens, Raylan Givens, Justified

“There, on the beaches, of Thailand, I decided to quit my job and travel the world alone for one straight year.”

— Rob Fee, From Failure to Fresh Start: 7 Passionate Stories That Will Inspire You To Live Your Best Life

“You've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology.”

— Steve Jobs, On Product Design

“There's a trade off between capability and usability. This is, as far as I know, no one has figured out how to achieve maximum capability and maximum usability in the same device. There's a trade off. In prospect, capability seems way more important that usability. In practice, the reverse is true.”

— Barry Schwartz, Trade Off Between Capability And Usability

“Typography exists to honor content”

— Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style

“A Designers role is not only to make “pretty” things but to help push the business forward and facilitate decisions about the product.”

— Clinton Halpin, Being an Agile Designer

“On an agile team “Final” decisions aren’t made by the Designer, final decisions are distributed and discussed amongst the team.”

— Clinton Halpin, Being an Agile Designer

“In a series of articles from 1912, Jung’s friend and colleague Alphonse Maeder argued that dreams had a function other than that of wish fulfillment, which was a balancing or compensatory function.”

— C. G. Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)

“In 1912, Jung had some significant dreams that he did not understand. He gave particular importance to two of these, which he felt showed the limitations of Freud’s conceptions of dreams.”

— C. G. Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)

“While he was engaged in this self-analytic activity, he continued to develop his theoretical work. At the Munich Psycho-Analytical Congress in September 1913, he spoke on psychological types. He argued that there were two basic movements of the libido: extraversion, in which the subject’s interest w…”

— C. G. Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)

“Philosophy does not begin in an experience of wonder, as ancient tradition contends, but rather, I think, with the indeterminate but palpable sense that something desired has not been fulfilled, that”

— Simon Critchley, Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance (Radical Thinkers)

“Too often, those disputes are colored by partisanship more than principle.”

— Logan Beirne, Blood of Tyrants: George Washington & the Forging of the Presidency

“But it’s not bedtime yet. The sun attains”

— Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire (Vintage International)

“I grew up in the poor projects of Brooklyn, New York, paid my way through college, and moved to Seattle, Washington, with my wife, Sheri, to take a job as head of marketing for a small coffee company called Starbucks. I spent my first weeks working at the Pike Place store, learning all about coffee,…”

— Howard Schultz, Joanne Gordon, Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul

“In the dining room, my brother and I would be told to go on with our food.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (Vintage International)