“How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the version in which Prometheus brought writing to man from the gods. But then I remind myself that...we should not be too fastidious about where great ideas come from. Ultimately, they all come from a wrinkled organ that at its healthiest has the color and consistency of toothpaste, and in the end only withers and dies.” MenShouldWritingIdeasEndsDiesLiteratureColorStoresBarsVersionsCodeOrgansConsistencyGroceriesGreat IdeaGrocery StoresToothpastePrometheusFastidiousCuneiform Author:Alice Weaver Flaherty
“Capucci was the biggest schooling I had. It wasn't just about the technical knowledge, such as color and volume, but also about the secret rules, and the beautiful codes of respect between the atelier and the master.” BeautifulSecretColorMastersCodeVolumeSchoolingTechnical Knowledge Author:Giambattista Valli
“Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data sweeps into the computer. Code has no drawings of trains carrying a cargo of zeros and ones. Metaphors and similes are wonderful literary devices but they do nothing but obscure the beauty of technology.” BookBigsTechnologyWonderfulColorComputerTrainMetaphorDrawingDataCodeDevicesObscureSimileArrowsIllustrationCargoDiskLiterary Devices Book:Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software Source: Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
“So [Polaroid's Dr. Edwin] Land, at 75, went off to spend the remainder of his life doing pure science, trying to crack the code of color vision. The man is a national treasure. I don't understand why people like that can't be held up as models: This is the most incredible thing to be - not an astronaut, not a football player - but this.” PeopleMenTryingVisionPlayerLandFootballColorHe ManPureModelsIncrediblesTreasureCodeCracksDrsAstronautFootball PlayerPolaroidsNational Treasure Author:Steve Jobs
“I like organizing things. I like organizing my closets, so that I know where everything is. And and I used to color code it.” KnowsUsedColorCodeClosetsOrganizing Things Author:Taylor Swift
“I really like the interplay between thinking of text as ephemeral and thinking of it as a concrete, physical thing. With almost anything that I write, I'll stay completely immersed in the electronic text of it for a period of time and in another period, I'll stay immersed in it as a physical thing that can cut your skin. So with the apocalypses, I had them taped all over the wall and they had codes on them. Sometimes I would color code them in terms of thematic elements, sometimes in terms of voice, sometimes visual forms or images.” ThinkingWritingSometimesFormVoiceTermCuttingColorWallPeriodsElementsSkinsCodeVisualsConcreteApocalypseEphemeralPhysical ThingsThematic Author:Lucy Corin