Inability to tolerate empty space limits the amount of space available. W. R. Bion, 'Cogitations'
Those who, each day, pitch camp farther off from their birthplace, those who, each day, haul in their boat on other banks, know better, day by day, the course of illegible things; and tracing the rivers towards their source, through the green world of appearances they are caught up suddenly into that harsh glare where all language loses its power. Saint-John Perse, “Snows”
It’s not how well you play the game, it’s deciding what game you want to play. Kwame Appiah
the flame is its own reflection Silver Apples
Run towards better problems mkstra
Better necessarily implies different
Behavior change requires identity change
Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect. Teller
Doing is base, planning is exponential
— unknown
“There are no solutions, only tradeoffs.”
Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context—a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan. Eliel Saarinen