“When traveling, I usually keep a notebook: when home at my desk, the notebook serves mainly to remind me how little I saw at the time, or rather how I was noticing the wrong things. But the notes do spur memories, and it's the memories I trust. The wine stain on the page may tell me more than the words there, which usually strike me as hopelessly inadequate.” MayLittlesHomeMemoriesSawsPagesWineNotesStrikesDesksNotebookInadequateWrong ThingsNoticingStainsSpurs Author:Jonathan Raban
“I have no Facebook page or Twitter - I don't participate in it, and I don't like it particularly. I mean, it's a form of interaction, which strikes me as extremely superficial.” MeanFormPagesStrikesInteractionSuperficialFacebook Page Author:Noam Chomsky
“History tells us more than we want to know about what is wrong with man, and we can hardly turn a page in the daily press without learning the specific time, place, and name of evil. But perhaps the most pervasive evil of all rarely appears in the news. This evil, the waste of human potential, is particularly painful to recognize for it strikes our parents and children, our friends and brothers, ourselves.” KnowsMenWantHumansChildrenTurnsEvilNamesParentHistoryBrotherWasteNewsPagesPressesPainfulStrikesHuman PotentialChildren And Parents Book:Education and Ecstasy: With, Source: Education and Ecstasy: With,
“Twitter is a place where you share your thoughts, yourself... you don't want a plain white backdrop for that. You want the entire page to say something about who you are. Designer or not, if the urge strikes you, go for it. Put up that watercolor you've never shown anyone. Take a photo of that hat you just knitted... whatever it is, share it.” IfsWantWhiteSharePagesWho You AreStrikesDesignerHatsUrgesBackdropWatercolors Author:Nate Berkus