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In Pursuit of Elegance
2011/09/20 15:49:02瀏覽197|回應0|推薦4
“Thirty spokes share the wheel’s hub, it is the center hole that makes it useful. Shape clay into a vessel, it is the space within that makes it useful. Cut doors and windows for a room, it is the holes which make it useful. Therefore profit comes from what is there, usefulness from what is not there.” – Lao Tzu

“A great piece of art is composed not just of what is in the final piece, but equally what is not. It is the discipline to discard what does not fit – to cut out what might have already cost days or even years of effort – that distinguishes the truly exceptional artist and marks the ideal piece of work, be it a symphony, a novel, a painting, a company, or most important of all, a life.” – Jim Collins

“I keep six honest serving-men (they taught me all I know). Their names are What and Where and When and How and Why and Who. I send them over land and sea, I send them east and west; But after they have worked for me, I give them all a rest.” – Rudyard Kipling

“Millions of people are beginning to work and live the way creative people like artists and scientists always have.” – Richard Florida, Author

“What’s wrong with how we engineer things is that most of what we accept as the proper order of things is based on assumptions, not observations. If we observed first, designed second, we wouldn't need most of the things we build.” – Ben Hamilton-Baillie, Designer

“Human endeavors are systems. We tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system, and wonder why our deepest problems never get solved.” – Peter Senge, MIT Lecturer

“Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery, aviator and author
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