quotes on Gert Van Gool

Sun, 28 Apr 2019 13:43:46 +0200

Wesco continues to try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric. … It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent. There must be some wisdom in the folk saying, “It’s the strong swimmers who drown.”

— Charlie Munger

Tue, 16 Aug 2016 19:39:43 +0200

Benjamin Schwartz’s tribute to #KennyBaker, the actor behind #StarWars’ #R2D2, who died over the weekend. #TNYcartoons

Sat, 06 Feb 2016 10:27:05 +0100

Mon, 05 Jan 2015 23:35:46 +0100

I find that young people want what their grandfathers had, not what their fathers had. They want classic, beautiful, traditional products that they’re going to keep forever. That’s the beauty of right now. They want to make a smart purchase, and they’re willing to spend the money on something that they like.

— Frank Clegg

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:22:01 +0100

Do things that have never been done. — Russell Kirsch

Sun, 27 Feb 2011 10:21:52 +0100

Simple is hard. #design — Keegan Jones

How To Be Alone

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 21:25:53 +0100

If you are at first lonely, be patient. If you’ve not been alone much, or if when you were, you weren’t okay with it, then just wait. You’ll find it’s fine to be alone once you’re embracing it. We could start with the acceptable places, the bathroom, the coffee shop, the library. Where you can stall and read the paper, where you can get your caffeine fix and sit and stay there.

The road not taken

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:21:22 +0100

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:20:21 +0100

Kun det bedste er godt nok — Lego motto

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:10:54 +0100

It takes twenty years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently. — Warren Buffett

Litany against fear

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:13:39 +0100

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Only I will remain

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:43:00 +0100

Authority, historically, gets bestowed on the gatekeepers of information, such as Britannica, universities, newspapers, etc. Everything that can be digitized will be digitized, and will then be available over the internet, which is disruptive, not only to business models, but to authority. — Joe Gregorio (via Simon Willison)

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:27:09 +0100

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:25:04 +0100

The most important thing a creative person can learn professionally is where to draw the red line that separates what you are willing to do from what you are not. — Hugh MacLeod

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:30:13 +0100

The truth isn’t the truth until people believe you, and they can’t believe you if they don’t know what you’re saying, and they can’t know what you’re saying if they don’t listen to you, and they won’t listen to you if you’re not interesting, and you won’t be interesting unless you say things imaginatively, originally, freshly. — Bernbach Paradigm

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:00:24 +0100

“there is nothing in a catterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly“

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:26:36 +0100

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. — Benjamin Franklin

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:00:39 +0100

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. — Alan Kay

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:57:48 +0100

It’s too bad she won’t live! But then again, who does? — Gaff (in Blade Runner)

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:11:19 +0100

I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises. — Buzz Aldrin

Fri, 22 May 2009 11:50:04 +0100

Sun, 17 May 2009 15:05:41 +0100

If all the insects were to disappear from the earth, within 50 years all life on Earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the earth, within 50 years all forms of life would flourish. — Jonas Salk (quoted in Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity)

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:08:21 +0100

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system. — John Gall (from the book “Systemantics: How Systems Really Work and How They Fail”)

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:27:44 +0100

When the wedding is over and the dress is put away what’s left is your life together… …and the photographs. — Times Two Studios - Portland Oregon Wedding, Portrait, Event Photographers

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:18:55 +0100

You can build prototypes in the time it takes to have a meeting — @simonw

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:34:00 +0100