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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6e6662b | To have true socialism, he said, we first establish capitalism, totally and heartlessly, and then destroy it by degrees, bury it in the sea. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 8a13d5b | Spy planes, drone aircraft, satellites with cameras that can see from three hundred miles what you can see from a hundred feet. They see and they hear. Like ancient monks, you know, who recorded knowledge, wrote it painstakingly down. These systems collect and process. All the secret knowledge of the world. | intelligence observation police-state reconnaissance surveillance technology | Don DeLillo | |
| 9c580cd | You fall into thought while staring at the green foliage back here--so much damn green that it envelops you in its cruddy fist--and the thoughts aren't too good, either--thoughts of sitting on the toilet--eating a sandwich--standing in line at a grocery store--watching an episode of Cheaters--doing laundry--staring at your face in a mirror--shaving it--snorting crushed pills--falling in love--death--all death--and the green shrubbery carrie.. | Brian Alan Ellis | ||
| a33ce12 | Many years ago there were no lions in Northwood. There were no black lions, nor golden-brown ones (which is the more usual color). There were no pink lions, green lions, or purple polka-dotted lions. No lions at all. But now there are lions. Nobody knows how many, but they are there, all right. | Brian Falkner | ||
| a222fc1 | It was hard not to think that wherever he wound up, it was not going to be good. He drank. He drugged. He regarded life with devilish disdain. I could never see him turning it around. Which is why I have also learned that the worst predictor of future behavior is high school behavior. | H.G. Bissinger | ||
| 9862480 | J. D. Cone, when he came here from Oklahoma in 1948 to become a family practitioner, went on house calls with a thirty-eight pistol stuck into his belt after the sheriff told him it was always a good idea to be armed in case someone got a little ornery or disagreed with the diagnosis. | H.G. Bissinger | ||
| efd89d0 | There were also those who had grown weary of it and the oft-repeated phrase that what made it special was the quality of its people. "Odessa has an unspeakable ability to bullshit itself," said Warren Burnett, a loquacious, liberal-minded lawyer who after roughly thirty years had fled the place like a refugee for the coastal waters near Houston. "Nothing could be sillier than we got good people here. We got the same cross-section of asshole.. | H.G. Bissinger | ||
| f8cbf6f | you'll be all right," said Hanson. "As long as you don't rock the boat, then they think" | H.G. Bissinger | ||
| 4d838bc | the solemn ritual that was attached to almost everything, made them seem like boys going off to fight a war for the benefit of someone else, unwitting sacrifices to a strange and powerful god. In | H.G. Bissinger | ||
| df909ba | The solution to the problem of poor performance scores had been a new system of grading that would encourage students to stay in school as well as improve their self-esteem. Beyond these important, admirable goals, it also had a more immediate purpose: it would undoubtedly reduce the school's notoriously high failure rate, which had become an embarrassment to the school and to the school board. Under the plan, equal weight was given to clas.. | H.G. Bissinger | ||
| 5ff3e42 | Affordances define what actions are possible. Signifiers specify how people discover those possibilities: signifiers are signs, perceptible signals of what can be done. Signifiers are of far more importance to designers than are affordances. | Donald A. Norman | ||
| 50e97cd | Fire," yells someone in a theater. Immediately everyone stampedes toward the exits. What do they do at the exit door? Push. If the door doesn't open, they push harder. But what if the door opens inward and must be pulled, not pushed? Highly anxious, highly focused people are very unlikely to think of pulling." | Donald A. Norman | ||
| d4873b0 | A device is easy to use when the set of possible actions is visible, when the controls and displays exploit natural mappings. | Donald A. Norman | ||
| 5534d4e | Skeuomorphic is the technical term for incorporating old, familiar ideas into new technologies, even though they no longer play a functional role. Skeuomorphic designs are often comfortable for traditionalists, and indeed the history of technology shows that new technologies and materials often slavishly imitate the old for no apparent reason except that is what people know how to do. Early | Donald A. Norman | ||
| 5b3c694 | The meanings of today may not be the meanings of the future. | Donald A. Norman | ||
| 1c3966e | Engineers and designers simultaneously know too much and too little. They know too much about the technology and too little about how other people live their live and do their activities. | Donald A. Norman | ||
| 00a8b96 | We are creative and imaginative, not mechanical and precise. Machines require precision and accuracy; people don't. And we are particularly bad at providing precise and accurate inputs. So | Donald A. Norman | ||
| 0c81abc | How | Donald A. Norman | ||
| d590286 | A conceptual model is an explanation, usually highly simplified, of how something works. It doesn't have to be complete or even accurate as long as it is useful. | Donald A. Norman | ||
| 465ff3c | Some things can only be solved by massive cultural changes, which probably means they will never be solved. | Donald A. Norman | ||
| 8e45666 | It is only at the reflective level that consciousness and the highest levels of feeling, emotions, and cognition reside. It is only here that the full impact of both thought and emotions are experienced. At the lower visceral and behavioral levels, there is only affect, but without interpretation or consciousness. Interpretation, understanding, and reasoning come from the reflective level. | Donald A. Norman | ||
| 27ff894 | A conceptual model is an explanation, usually highly simplified, of how something works. It doesn't have to be complete or even accurate as long as it is useful. The | Donald A. Norman | ||
| d3c824a | Because visceral design is about initial reactions, it can be studied quite simply by putting people in front of a design and waiting for reactions. In the best of circumstances, the visceral reaction to appearance works so well that people take one look and say "I want it." Then they might ask, "What does it do?" And last, "And how much does it cost?" This is the reaction the visceral designer strives for, and it can work. Much of traditio.. | Donald A. Norman | ||
| 81ed041 | Cognition and emotion cannot be separated. Cognitive thoughts lead to emotions: emotions drive cognitive thoughts. The brain is structured to act upon the world, and every action carries with it expectations, and these expectations drive emotions. That is why much of language is based on physical metaphors, why the body and its interaction with the environment are essential components of human thought. Emotion is highly underrated. In fact,.. | Donald A. Norman | ||
| 55d94fb | day a product development process starts, it is behind schedule and above budget. | Donald A. Norman | ||
| dee5468 | market-driven pressures plus an engineering-driven company yield ever-increasing features, complexity, and confusion. But even companies that do intend to search for human needs are thwarted by the severe challenges of the product development process, in particular, the challenges of insufficient time and insufficient money. | Donald A. Norman | ||
| a639f34 | If the system lets you make the error, it is badly designed. | Donald A. Norman | ||
| 143a243 | Once again, the designer should assume that people will be interrupted during their activities and that they may need assistance in resuming their operations. | Donald A. Norman | ||
| f86bb43 | Never underestimate the power of social pressures on behavior, causing otherwise sensible people to do things they know are wrong and possibly dangerous. | Donald A. Norman | ||
| 828f623 | During an incident, there are never clear clues. Many things are happening at once: workload is high, emotions and stress levels are high. Many things that are happening will turn out to be irrelevant. Things that appear irrelevant will turn out to be critical. The accident investigators, working with hindsight, knowing what really happened, will focus on the relevant information and ignore the irrelevant. But at the time the events were ha.. | Donald A. Norman | ||
| 2e5617c | Modern technology can be complex, but complexity by itself is neither good nor bad: it is confusion that is bad. Forget the complaints against complexity; instead, complain about confusion. | Donald A. Norman | ||
| 1ef66a8 | we can read; reading is almost as good as doing. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| e92902c | the proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 479c263 | A thousand questions hit my eyes from the inside. | Anne Carson | ||
| 1052ac8 | HOO JAMES SHIN HOO. Born: James Hoo in Chicago. Age: 50. Added Shin to his name when he went into the restaurant business because it sounded more Chinese. First wife died of cancer five years ago. Married again last year. Has one son: Douglas. SUN LIN HOO. Age: 28. Born in China. Immigrated from Hong Kong two years ago. Gossip: James Hoo married her for her 100-year-old sauce. DOUGLAS HOO (called Doug). Age: 18. High-school track star. Is c.. | Ellen Raskin | ||
| 509215e | TURTLE SPENT THE night at the bedside of eighty-five-year-old Julian R. Eastman. T. R. Wexler had a master's degree in business administration, an advanced degree in corporate law, and had served two years as legal counsel to the Westing Paper Products Corporation. She had made one million dollars in the stock market, lost it all, then made five million more. | Ellen Raskin | ||
| 9892855 | Read it out loud, dear," Grace ordered, as Angela opened the card tied to the yellow-ribboned box. To the bride-to-be in the kitchen stuck, An asparagus cooker and lots of luck. from Cookie Barfspringer "Thank you," Angela said, wondering which one was the Barfspringer. The next gift was an egg poacher. The box in pink ribbons contained another asparagus cooker. "I sure hope Doctor Deere likes asparagus," someone remarked." | Ellen Raskin | ||
| 10b7136 | Hello, Jake, I'm so glad you could come," Sunny (as Madame Hoo was now called) said, shaking the hand of the chairman of the State Gambling Commission." | Ellen Raskin | ||
| 0785b7a | another motive as well--namely, to preserve her voice, which had a quality of expressiveness I have rarely encountered. Customarily she spoke with a soft tone, as one might expect of a woman who has made a career of entertaining men. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 5eb07a9 | I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting," he explained. "I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals--true equals--only when they both have equal confidence." | Arthur Golden | ||
| b01b4ec | Kimono, the. Costumes of our profession, are sacred to us. They are the emblems of our calling. Kimono embody beautyas we understand!!! | Mineko Iwasaki and Rande Brown | ||
| 0a5f529 | Charlotte, N.C., 273 Chastity belt, 55 Chaucer, Geoffrey, | Gay Talese | ||
| e9efbf7 | recalling vividly the love scene I had just witnessed. How much I had been cheated! How much of what should be every woman's was not mine and | V.C. Andrews | ||
| d457c1d | you used to do that. If you hid your face, you thought we couldn't see you just because you couldn't see us. | V.C. Andrews |