“When you advance a frontier and you do tomorrow what's never been done today, you have to innovate to make that happen. You become an innovation culture. When I grew up, every time I turned around it was, "Oh, here's the longest bridge or the deepest tunnel or the fastest airplane." And I originally thought that was just kind of like a pissing contest with men with too much testosterone. And then I realized that to make the tallest building you have to innovate. To make the fastest train you have to design the train in a way that it's never been designed before.” MenWayKindDoneHappensTodayCultureToo MuchDesignBuildingGrewTomorrowGrew UpInnovationTrainI RealizedBridgesAirplaneContestsFrontiersTunnelsTestosterone Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“I grew up in that, when I was a kid. My friends and I used to play cowboys and Indians. We were cowboys killing the Indians, following the Wild West stories. All of this combined into a very strange culture, which is frightened.” PlayStoriesKidsUsedCultureStrangeGrewGrew UpMy FriendsWestKillingFollowingFrightenedCowboyWild West Author:Noam Chomsky
“The thing that really struck me when I went to junior high was class. I grew up on a pretty poor street, but the school district I was in included some fine neighborhoods - so I got to know a couple of the kids from those places and went to their houses and experienced such culture shock.” KnowsKidsSchoolCultureHousePoorClassStreetsFineGrewCoupleGrew UpShockNeighborhoodJuniorsJunior HighCulture ShockSchool Districts Author:Lynda Barry
“I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and a culture where sadness is something you're taught to feel shame about. You end up chronically desiring what can be a very sentimental idea of love and connection. A lot of my work has been about trying to make a space for sadness.” ThinkingFeelsTryingHas BeensIdeasEndsHateCultureSpaceSadnessTaughtGrewGrew UpConnectionsTownsShameAestheticSentimentalPromoting Author:Mike Mills
“And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.” CultureGrewGrew UpAustraliaSurfing Author:Marc Newson