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GREAT MINDS DISCUSS IDEAS; AVERAGE MINDS DISCUSS EVENTS; SMALL MINDS DISCUSS PEOPLE.

Eleanor Roosevelt (via Liz)

STORIES TELL US OF WHAT WE ALREADY KNEW AND FORGOT, AND REMIND US OF WHAT WE HAVEN’T YET IMAGINED.

Anne Watson (via @jeroenvangeel)

HERE IS ALWAYS SOMEWHERE ELSE.

Bas Jan Ader

TODAY IS THE TOMORROW YOU WORRIED ABOUT YESTERDAY AND ALL IS WELL

via Do You Read Me!?

WHATEVER YOU CAN DO, OR DREAM YOU CAN DO, BEGIN IT. BOLDNESS HAS GENIUS, POWER AND MAGIC IN IT. BEGIN IT NOW.

Johan Wolfgang Goethe (via Pieter Spinder)

DO WHAT YOU DO BEST — AND LINK TO THE REST.

Jeff Jarvis

IF YOU WANT TO KNOW ALL THERE IS TO KNOW ABOUT LIONS, GO TO THE JUNGLE, NOT THE ZOO.

Kevin Roberts (Saatchi & Saatchi)

WHEN IT CAN’T BE DONE, DO IT. IF YOU DON’T DO IT, IT DOESN’T EXIST.

Paul Arden

OOK WIE IETS KLEINS BOUWT, FLIRT MET HET HEELAL.

Jacques Bral via @alexmaslow

THE MORE CONNECTIONS I MAKE, THE FURTHER I CAN REACH ACROSS THE WORLD FINDING INSPIRATION IN EVERY PERSON THAT I MEET.

Matt Pyke, artist ‘universal everything’

IT’S LIKE A MOUSE THAT ASKS A CAT TO GET HIM SOME CHEESE.

Marcel Kampman

THERE ARE NO PASSENGERS ON SPACESHIP EARTH. WE ARE ALL CREW.

Marshall McLuhan

LIVE OUT OF YOUR IMAGINATION, NOT YOUR HISTORY.

Steven R. Covey

GOOD DESIGNERS MUST ALWAYS BE AVANT-GARDISTS, ALWAYS ONE STEP AHEAD OF THE TIMES. THEY SHOULD — AND MUST — QUESTION EVERYTHING GENERALLY THOUGHT TO BE OBVIOUS. THEY MUST HAVE AN INTUITION FOR PEOPLE’S CHANGING ATTITUDES. FOR THE REALITY IN WHICH THEY LIVE, FOR THEIR DREAMS, THEIR DESIRES, THEIR WORRIES, THEIR NEEDS, THEIR LIVING HABITS. THEY MUST ALSO BE ABLE TO ASSESS REALISTICALLY THE OPPORTUNITIES AND BOUNDS OF TECHNOLOGY.

Dieter Rams

MAKE NO LITTLE PLANS. THEY HAVE NO MAGIC TO STIR MEN’S BLOOD AND PROBABLY THEMSELVES WILL NOT BE REALIZED. MAKE BIG PLANS; AIM HIGH IN HOPE AND WORK, REMEMBERING THAT A NOBLE, LOGICAL DIAGRAM ONCE RECORDED WILL NEVER DIE, BUT LONG AFTER WE ARE GONE WILL BE A LIVING THING, ASSERTING ITSELF WITH EVERGROWING INSISTENCY. REMEMBER THAT OUR SONS AND GRANDSONS ARE GOING TO DO THINGS THAT WOULD STAGGER US. LET YOUR WATCHWORD BE ORDER AND YOUR BEACON BEAUTY. THINK BIG.

Daniel Burnham, architect (1864-1912)

DON’T CRY BECAUSE IT’S OVER. SMILE BECAUSE IT HAPPENED.

Dr. Seuss

WHY JOIN THE NAVY IF YOU CAN BE A PIRATE?

Steve Jobs

ZE ZEGGEN WEL EENS DAT ZE MIJN OGEN HEEFT. DAN BEN IK TROTS. MAAR IK ZOU NATUURLIJK VEEL LIEVER DE HARE WILLEN.

Ivo Victoria over zijn dochtertje Lola van 3

PARTICIPATION IS BEAUTIFUL, BUT IT’S A LOT OF WORK.

Karl Valentin (via Rui Guerra)

ADVENTURE IS DISCOMFORT IN RETROSPECT.

Source unknown

THE ILLITERATE OF THE FUTURE WILL NOT BE THE PERSON WHO CANNOT READ. IT WILL BE THE PERSON WHO DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO LEARN.

Alvin Toffler

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE? IN THEORY THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE, BUT IN PRACTICE THERE IS.

Bruce Sterling

ALS JE EEN AAP LEERT KLIMMEN, DAN GAAT HIJ MET KOKOSNOTEN GOOIEN.

Ron Oudega

WHAT IS NOW PROVEN, WAS ONCE IMAGINED.

Kai van Hasselt

SCIENCE IS WHAT WE UNDERSTAND WELL ENOUGH TO EXPLAIN TO A COMPUTER. ART IS EVERYTHING ELSE WE DO.

Donald E. Knuth