Proportion is not only to be found in figures and measurements, but also in sound, weight, time and position, and in whatever power which exists.
Proportion is not only to be found in figures and measurements, but also in sound, weight, time and position, and in whatever power which exists.
Small rooms or dwellings help the mind to concentrate itself; large rooms are a source of distraction.
#davinci Thoughts on Art and Life
Note that I skipped a whole tonne of Da Vinci’s longer notes, which can be summarised as: “painting is great, poetry is rubbish, music and sculpture are somewhere in between”.
The water you touch in a river is that last of that which has gone, and the first of that which is coming: so it is with time present.
A natural action is accomplished in the briefest manner.
Man discourtheth greatly, and his discourse is for the greater part empty and false; the discourse of animals is small, but useful and true: slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.
Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.
There is nothing which deceives us as much as out own judgement.
All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions.
He who in reasoning cites authority is making use of his memory rather than of his intellect.
Truth was the only daughter of time.
Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.
Bountiful nature has provided that in all parts of the world you will find something to imitate
The intellect will always profit by the acquisition of any knowledge whatsoever, for thus what is useless will be expelled from it, and what is fruitful will remain. It is impossible either to hate or to love a thing without first acquiring knowledge of it.
Avoid studies the result of which will die together with him who studied.
Yet another reason why HTML+microformats2 is the way forward for feeds on the web:
“Most people don’t know what HTML is and yet are able to consume pages without caring much.”
/by Julien Genestoux (source)
Fascinating — Konrad Lorenz compares cultural revolution with exoskeleton-clad Arthropods shedding their shells:
The act of demolishing carefully erected structures, though indispensable if better adapted ones are to arise, is always followed by a period of vulnerability.
#reading On Aggression
The more interwoven the relationship between the appearance and the manufacturing process is, the more honest the material.
Too right. I love the way @kevingoldman advocates the use of movement, state and microcopy for emotive design on the web.
[adding web actions support] took me five minutes and two lines of code.
This is what we like to hear! Nice one Laurent Eschenauer! (source)
P.S. 5 mins and 2 lines of declarative HTML! Beat that, web intents/activities
“…and Jake the Human, the fun will never end, it’s #adventuretime”
Brother: “The fun has to end because one of them will die
” #killjoy