Quotes

The mood of the moment: words and philosophies that inspire and inform us.

“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center. ”

Kurt Vonnegut

Eco non ego (resonance, not self).”

Matteo Thun

“Anyone who don't love this life is crazy.”

Manual, Manual's Tavern, Atlanta, Georgia

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not!”

Dr. Seuss

“Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong.”

Maya Angelou

“Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.”

Francisco de Goya

“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”

Dolly Parton

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”

Frank Zappa

“We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.”

Thomas Fuller

“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

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

Gandhi

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Reduce parking demand through limiting the absolute amount of spaces and prioritizing the spaces for short-term and ride-share uses.”

The San Francisco General Plan

“Conventional wisdom is the opposite of common sense.”

Merritt Sher

“Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan the day. But if we forget to savor the world, what possible reason do we have for saving it?”

E.B. White

“Preoccupation with our own interests—our own narrow desires, ambitions, and goals—undermines our ability to be compassionate. Conversely, the more we concern ourselves with providing for others’ well-being, the more meaningful our lives become and the happier we ourselves will be.”

The Dalai Lama

“If I see a chair in a beautiful space, no matter how beautiful the chair is, it can never be as beautiful to me as the plain space. My favorite piece of sculpture is a solid wall with a hole in it to frame the space on the other side.”

Andy Warhol

“There is something bigger and more worth while than the things we see about us, the things we live by and strive for. There is an undiscovered beauty, a divine excellence, just beyond us. Let us stand on tiptoe, forgetting the nearer things and grasp what we may.”

Bernard Maybeck, 1923

“Everything that can be digital will be digital.”

Craig Kanarick, Chief Scientist, Razorfish